Method, apparatus, and system for processing audio data

ABSTRACT

A method, an apparatus, and a system for processing audio data are provided that pertain to the field of communications technologies. The method includes: obtaining a noise frame of an audio signal, and decomposing the current noise frame into a noise low-band signal and a noise high-band signal; and encoding and transmitting the noise low-band signal by using a first discontinuous transmission mechanism, and encoding and transmitting the noise high-band signal by using a second discontinuous transmission mechanism. According to the present invention, different processing manners are used for the high-band signal and the low-band signal, calculation loads and encoded bits may be saved under a premise of not lowering subjective quality of a codec, and bits that are saved may help to achieve an objective of reducing a transmission bandwidth or improving overall encoding quality.

CROSS-REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATIONS

This application is a continuation of International Application No.PCT/CN2012/087812, filed on Dec. 28, 2012, which claims priority toChinese Patent Application No. 201110455836.7, filed on Dec. 30, 2011,both of which are hereby incorporated by reference in their entireties.

STATEMENT REGARDING FEDERALLY SPONSORED RESEARCH OR DEVELOPMENT

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REFERENCE TO A MICROFICHE APPENDIX

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TECHNICAL FIELD

The present invention relates to the field of communicationstechnologies, and in particular, to a method, an apparatus, and a systemfor processing audio data.

BACKGROUND

In the field of digital communications, there are extensive applicationrequirements for transmission of speeches, images, audios, and videos,such as mobile phone calls, audio/video conferencing, broadcasttelevision, and multimedia entertainment. A speech is digitized, andthen transferred from one terminal to another terminal through a voicecommunication network. Herein the terminals may be mobile phones,digital phone terminals, or voice terminals or any other types. Examplesof digital phone terminals are Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP)phones or Integrated Services Digital Network (ISDN) phones, computers,and cable communication phones. To reduce resources occupied in theprocess of storing or transmitting audio signals, a sending end performscompression processing on audio signals before transmitting the audiosignals to a receiving end, and the receiving end performs decompressionprocessing to restore the audio signals and play the audio signals.

In voice communication, speech is included in only about 40% of thetime, and at other times, there is only silence or background noise. Tosave transmission bandwidths and avoid unnecessary consumption ofbandwidths in a silence or background noise period, a Discontinuoustransmission system/Comfort Noise Generation (DTX/CNG) technologyemerges. Simply, DTX/CNG means not encoding noise frames continuously,but performing encoding only once at an interval of several frames in anoise/silence period according to a policy, where an encoded bit rate isgenerally much lower than a bit rate of speech frame encoding. A noiseframe encoded at such a low rate is referred to as a Silence InsertionDescriptor frame (SID). A decoder restores continuous background noiseframes at the decoding end according to discontinuously received SIDs.Such continuously restored background noise is not a faithfulreproduction of background noise of an encoding end, but aims to avoidcausing quality deterioration in hearing as much as possible, so that auser feels comfortable when hearing the noise. The restored backgroundnoise is referred to as Comfort Noise (CN), and the method for restoringthe CN at the decoding end is referred to as comfort noise generation.

In the prior art, International Telecommunications UnionTelecommunication Standardization Sector (ITU-T) G.718 is a new standardwideband codec, which includes a wideband DTX/CNG system. The system maysend a SID according to a fixed interval, and may also adaptively adjustthe SID sending interval according to an estimated noise level. A SIDframe of G.718 includes 16 immittance spectral pair (ISP) parameters andexcitation energy parameters. This group of ISP parameters represents aspectral envelope on the bandwidth of an entire wide band, and anexcitation energy is obtained by an analysis filter represented by thisgroup of ISP parameters. At the decoding end, the G.718 estimates,according to ISP parameters obtained by decoding a SID in a CNG state, alinear prediction coefficient (LPC) required for CNG, estimates,according to excitation energy parameters obtained by decoding the SIDframe, an excitation energy required for CNG, and uses gain-adjustedwhite noise to excite a CNG synthesis filter to obtain a reconstructedCN.

However, for a super-wideband spectral envelope, the bandwidth of thesuper wide band is extremely wide; when the prior art is extended to asuper-wideband DTX/CNG system, more calculation loads and bits need tobe consumed to calculate and encode the added dozen of ISP parameters,because a complete super-wideband spectral envelope needs to be encodedfor a SID. Because high-band signals of noise (which refers to afrequency range above the wide band herein) are generally notperceptually sensitive in hearing, calculation loads and bits consumedfor this part of signals are not cost-effective, thereby reducing theencoding efficiency of the codec.

SUMMARY

To solve a super-wideband encoding and transmission problem, embodimentsof the present invention provide a method, an apparatus, and a systemfor processing audio data. The technical solutions are as follows:

According to one aspect, a method for processing audio data is providedand includes: obtaining a noise frame of an audio signal, anddecomposing the noise frame into a noise low-band signal and a noisehigh-band signal; and encoding the noise low-band signal by using afirst discontinuous transmission mechanism and transmitting the encodednoise low-band signal by using the first discontinuous transmissionmechanism, and encoding the noise high-band signal by using a seconddiscontinuous transmission mechanism and transmitting the encoded noisehigh-band signal by using the second discontinuous transmissionmechanism, where a policy for sending a first SID of the firstdiscontinuous transmission mechanism is different from a policy forsending a second SID of the second discontinuous transmission mechanism,or a policy for encoding a first SID of the first discontinuoustransmission mechanism is different from a policy for encoding a secondSID of the second discontinuous transmission mechanism.

According to one aspect, a method for processing audio data is providedand includes: obtaining, by a decoder, a SID, and determining whetherthe SID includes a low-band parameter and/or a high-band parameter; whenthe SID includes the low-band parameter, decoding the SID to obtain anoise low-band parameter, locally generating a noise high-bandparameter, and obtaining a first CN frame according to the noiselow-band parameter obtained by decoding and the locally generated noisehigh-band parameter; when the SID includes the high-band parameter,decoding the SID to obtain a noise high-band parameter, locallygenerating a noise low-band parameter, and obtaining a second CN frameaccording to the noise high-band parameter obtained by decoding and thelocally generated noise low-band parameter; and when the SID includesthe high-band parameter and the low-band parameter, decoding the SID toobtain a noise high-band parameter and a noise low-band parameter, andobtaining a third CN frame according to the noise high-band parameterand the noise low-band parameter obtained by decoding.

According to another aspect, an apparatus for encoding audio data isprovided and includes: an obtaining module configured to obtain a noiseframe of an audio signal, and decompose the noise frame into a noiselow-band signal and a noise high-band signal; and a transmitting moduleconfigured to encode the noise low-band signal by using a firstdiscontinuous transmission mechanism and transmit the encoded noiselow-band signal by using the first discontinuous transmission mechanism,and encode the noise high-band signal by using a second discontinuoustransmission mechanism and transmit the encoded noise high-band signalby using the second discontinuous transmission mechanism, where a policyfor sending a first SID of the first discontinuous transmissionmechanism is different from a policy for sending a second SID of thesecond discontinuous transmission mechanism, or a policy for encoding afirst SID of the first discontinuous transmission mechanism is differentfrom a policy for encoding a second SID of the second discontinuoustransmission mechanism.

According to another aspect, an apparatus for decoding audio data isprovided and includes: an obtaining module configured to obtain a SID,and determine whether the SID includes a low-band parameter and/or ahigh-band parameter; a first decoding module configured to: when the SIDobtained by the obtaining module includes the low-band parameter, decodethe SID to obtain a noise low-band parameter, locally generate a noisehigh-band parameter, and obtain a first CN frame according to the noiselow-band parameter obtained by decoding and the locally generated noisehigh-band parameter; a second decoding module configured to: when theSID obtained by the obtaining module includes the high-band parameter,decode the SID to obtain a noise high-band parameter, locally generate anoise low-band parameter, and obtain a second CN frame according to thenoise high-band parameter obtained by decoding and the locally generatednoise low-band parameter; and a third decoding module configured to:when the SID obtained by the obtaining module includes the high-bandparameter and the low-band parameter, decode the SID to obtain a noisehigh-band parameter and a noise low-band parameter, and obtain a thirdCN frame according to the noise high-band parameter and the noiselow-band parameter obtained by decoding.

According to another aspect, a system for processing audio data isprovided and includes the foregoing apparatus for encoding audio dataand the foregoing apparatus for decoding audio data.

The technical solutions provided by the embodiments of the presentinvention bring the following beneficial effects: a current noise frameis decomposed into a noise low-band signal and a noise high-band signal;then the noise low-band signal is encoded and transmitted by using afirst discontinuous transmission mechanism, and the noise high-bandsignal is encoded and transmitted by using a second discontinuoustransmission mechanism; a decoder obtains a SID, and determines whetherthe SID includes a low-band parameter and/or a high-band parameter; anddifferent noise decoding manners are used according to differentdetermining results. In this way, different encoding and decodingprocessing manners are used for the high-band signal and the low-bandsignal, calculation complexity may be reduced and encoded bits may besaved under a premise of not lowering subjective quality of a codec, andbits that are saved may help to achieve an objective of reducing atransmission bandwidth or improving overall encoding quality, therebysolving a super-wideband encoding and transmission problem.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS

To describe the technical solutions in the embodiments of the presentinvention more clearly, the following briefly introduces theaccompanying drawings required for describing the embodiments. Theaccompanying drawings in the following description show merely someembodiments of the present invention, and a person of ordinary skill inthe art may still derive other drawings from these accompanying drawingswithout creative efforts.

FIG. 1 is a flowchart of a method for processing audio data according toEmbodiment 1 of the present invention;

FIG. 2 is a flowchart of a method for processing audio data according toEmbodiment 2 of the present invention;

FIG. 3 is a flowchart of a method for processing audio data according toEmbodiment 3 of the present invention;

FIG. 4 is a flowchart of a method for processing audio data according toEmbodiment 4 of the present invention;

FIG. 5 is a schematic diagram of an apparatus for encoding audio dataaccording to Embodiment 6 of the present invention;

FIG. 6 is a schematic diagram of another apparatus for encoding audiodata according to Embodiment 6 of the present invention;

FIG. 7 is a schematic diagram of an apparatus for decoding audio dataaccording to Embodiment 7 of the present invention;

FIG. 8 is a schematic diagram of another apparatus for decoding audiodata according to Embodiment 7 of the present invention; and

FIG. 9 is a schematic diagram of a system for processing audio dataaccording to Embodiment 8 of the present invention.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION

To make the objectives, technical solutions, and advantages of thepresent invention clearer, the following further describes theembodiments of the present invention in detail with reference to theaccompanying drawings.

Embodiment 1

Referring to FIG. 1, this embodiment provides a method for processingaudio data, where the method includes the following:

101. Obtain a noise frame of an audio signal, and decompose the noiseframe into a noise low-band signal and a noise high-band signal.

102. Encode and transmit the noise low-band signal by using a firstdiscontinuous transmission mechanism, and encode and transmit the noisehigh-band signal by using a second discontinuous transmission mechanism,where a policy for sending a first SID of the first discontinuoustransmission mechanism is different from a policy for sending a secondSID of the second discontinuous transmission mechanism, or a policy forencoding a first SID of the first discontinuous transmission mechanismis different from a policy for encoding a second SID of the seconddiscontinuous transmission mechanism.

In this embodiment, the first SID includes a low-band parameter of thenoise frame, and the second SID includes a low-band parameter or ahigh-band parameter of the noise frame.

Optionally, in this embodiment, the encoding and transmitting the noisehigh-band signal by using a second discontinuous transmission mechanismincludes: determining whether the noise high-band signal has a presetspectral structure; if yes, and a sending condition of the policy forsending the second SID is satisfied, encoding a SID of the noisehigh-band signal by using the policy for encoding the second SID, andsending the SID; and if not, determining that the noise high-band signaldoes not need to be encoded and transmitted.

The determining whether the noise high-band signal has a preset spectralstructure includes: obtaining a spectrum of the noise high-band signal,dividing the spectrum into at least two sub-bands, and if an averageenergy of any first sub-band in the sub-bands is not smaller than anaverage energy of a second sub-band in the sub-bands, where a frequencyband in which the second sub-band is located is higher than a frequencyband in which the first sub-band is located, determining that the noisehigh-band signal has no preset spectral structure; otherwise,determining that the noise high-band signal has a preset spectralstructure.

Optionally, in this embodiment, the encoding and transmitting the noisehigh-band signal by using a second discontinuous transmission mechanismincludes: generating a deviation according to a first ratio and a secondratio, where the first ratio is a ratio of an energy of the noisehigh-band signal to an energy of the noise low-band signal of the noiseframe, and the second ratio is a ratio of an energy of a noise high-bandsignal to an energy of a noise low-band signal at a moment when a SIDincluding a noise high-band parameter is sent last time before the noiseframe; and determining whether the deviation reaches a preset threshold;if yes, encoding a SID of the noise high-band signal by using the policyfor encoding the second SID, and sending the SID; and if not,determining that the noise high-band signal does not need to be encodedand transmitted.

Optionally, that the first ratio is a ratio of an energy of the noisehigh-band signal to an energy of the noise low-band signal of the noiseframe includes that: the first ratio is a ratio of an instant energy ofthe noise high-band signal to an instant energy of the noise low-bandsignal of the noise frame; and correspondingly, that the second ratio isa ratio of an energy of a noise high-band signal to an energy of a noiselow-band signal at a moment when a SID including a noise high-bandparameter is sent last time before the noise frame includes that: thesecond ratio is a ratio of an instant energy of the noise high-bandsignal to an instant energy of the noise low-band signal at the momentwhen the SID including the noise high-band parameter is sent last timebefore the noise frame.

Alternatively, that the first ratio is a ratio of an energy of the noisehigh-band signal to an energy of the noise low-band signal of the noiseframe includes that: the first ratio is a ratio of a weighted averageenergy of noise high-band signals of the noise frame and a noise frameprior to the noise frame to a weighted average energy of noise low-bandsignals of the noise frame and the noise frame prior to the noise frame;and correspondingly, that the second ratio is a ratio of an energy of anoise high-band signal to an energy of a noise low-band signal at amoment when a SID including a noise high-band parameter is sent lasttime before the noise frame includes that: the second ratio is a ratioof a weighted average energy of high-band signals to a weighted averageenergy of low-band signals of a noise frame and a noise frame prior tothe noise frame at the moment when the SID including the noise high-bandparameter is sent last time before the noise frame.

In this embodiment, the generating a deviation according to a firstratio and a second ratio includes: separately calculating a logarithmicvalue of the first ratio and a logarithmic value of the second ratio;and calculating an absolute value of a difference between thelogarithmic value of the first ratio and the logarithmic value of thesecond ratio, to obtain the deviation.

Optionally, in this embodiment, the encoding and transmitting the noisehigh-band signal by using a second discontinuous transmission mechanismincludes: determining whether a spectral structure of the noisehigh-band signal of the noise frame, in comparison with an averagespectral structure of noise high-band signals before the noise frame,satisfies a preset condition; if yes, encoding a SID of the noisehigh-band signal of the noise frame by using the policy for encoding thesecond SID, and sending the SID; and if not, determining that the noisehigh-band signal of the noise frame does not need to be encoded andtransmitted.

The average spectral structure of the noise high-band signals before thenoise frame includes: a weighted average of spectrums of the noisehigh-band signals before the noise frame.

In this embodiment, the sending condition in the policy for sending thesecond SID of the second discontinuous transmission mechanism furtherincludes the first discontinuous transmission mechanism satisfying acondition for sending the first SID.

The method embodiment provided by the present invention brings thefollowing beneficial effects: a current noise frame of an audio signalis obtained, and the current noise frame is decomposed into a noiselow-band signal and a noise high-band signal; then the noise low-bandsignal is encoded and transmitted by using a first discontinuoustransmission mechanism, and the noise high-band signal is encoded andtransmitted by using a second discontinuous transmission mechanism. Inthis way, different processing manners are used for the high-band signaland the low-band signal, calculation complexity may be reduced andencoded bits may be saved under a premise of not lowering subjectivequality of a codec, and bits that are saved help to achieve an objectiveof reducing a transmission bandwidth or improving overall encodingquality, thereby solving a super-wideband encoding and transmissionproblem.

Embodiment 2

Referring to FIG. 2, this embodiment provides a method for processingaudio data, where the method includes the following:

201. A decoder obtains a SID, and determines whether the SID includes alow-band parameter or a high-band parameter.

202. If the SID includes the low-band parameter, decode the SID toobtain a noise low-band parameter, locally generate a noise high-bandparameter, and obtain a first CN frame according to the noise low-bandparameter obtained by decoding and the locally generated noise high-bandparameter.

203. If the SID includes the high-band parameter, decode the SID toobtain a noise high-band parameter, locally generate a noise low-bandparameter, and obtain a second CN frame according to the noise high-bandparameter obtained by decoding and the locally generated noise low-bandparameter.

204. If the SID includes the high-band parameter and the low-bandparameter, decode the SID to obtain a noise high-band parameter and anoise low-band parameter, and obtain a third CN frame according to thenoise high-band parameter and the noise low-band parameter obtained bydecoding.

Optionally, in this embodiment, if the SID includes the low-bandparameter, before the decoding the SID to obtain a noise low-bandparameter, locally generating a noise high-band parameter, and obtaininga first CN frame according to the noise low-band parameter obtained bydecoding and the locally generated noise high-band parameter, the methodfurther includes: if the decoder is in a first comfort noise generationCNG state, entering, by the decoder, a second CNG state.

Optionally, in this embodiment, if the SID includes the high-bandparameter and the low-band parameter, before the decoding the SID toobtain a noise high-band parameter and a noise low-band parameter, andobtaining a third CN frame according to the noise high-band parameterand the noise low-band parameter obtained by decoding, the methodfurther includes: if the decoder is in a second CNG state, entering, bythe decoder, a first CNG state.

Optionally, in this embodiment, the determining whether the SID includesa low-band parameter and/or a high-band parameter includes: if thenumber of bits of the SID is smaller than a preset first threshold,determining that the SID includes the high-band parameter; if the numberof bits of the SID is greater than a preset first threshold and smallerthan a preset second threshold, determining that the SID includes thelow-band parameter; and if the number of bits of the SID is greater thana preset second threshold and smaller than a preset third threshold,determining that the SID includes the high-band parameter and thelow-band parameter; or if the SID includes a first identifier,determining that the SID includes the high-band parameter; if the SIDincludes a second identifier, determining that the SID includes thelow-band parameter; and if the SID includes a third identifier,determining that the SID includes the low-band parameter and thehigh-band parameter.

In this embodiment, the locally generating a noise high-band parameterincludes: separately obtaining a weighted average energy of a noisehigh-band signal and a synthesis filter coefficient of the noisehigh-band signal at a moment corresponding to the SID; and obtaining thenoise high-band signal according to the obtained weighted average energyof the noise high-band signal and the obtained synthesis filtercoefficient of the noise high-band signal at the moment corresponding tothe SID.

Optionally, in this embodiment, the obtaining a weighted average energyof a noise high-band signal at a moment corresponding to the SIDincludes: obtaining an energy of a low-band signal of the first CN frameaccording to the noise low-band parameter obtained by decoding;calculating a ratio of an energy of a noise high-band signal to anenergy of a noise low-band signal at a moment when a SID including ahigh-band parameter is received before the SID, to obtain a first ratio;obtaining, according to the energy of the low-band signal of the firstCN frame and the first ratio, an energy of the noise high-band signal atthe moment corresponding to the SID; and performing weighted averagingon the energy of the noise high-band signal at the moment correspondingto the SID and an energy of a high-band signal of a locally buffered CNframe, to obtain the weighted average energy of the noise high-bandsignal at the moment corresponding to the SID, where the weightedaverage energy of the noise high-band signal at the moment correspondingto the SID is a high-band signal energy of the first CN frame.

Optionally, in this embodiment, the calculating a ratio of an energy ofa noise high-band signal to an energy of a noise low-band signal at amoment when a SID including a high-band parameter is received before theSID, to obtain a first ratio, includes: calculating a ratio of aninstant energy of the noise high-band signal to an instant energy of thenoise low-band signal at the moment when the SID including the high-bandparameter is received before the SID, to obtain the first ratio; orcalculating a ratio of a weighted average energy of the noise high-bandsignal to a weighted average energy of the noise low-band signal at themoment when the SID including the high-band parameter is received beforethe SID, to obtain the first ratio.

When the energy of the noise high-band signal at the momentcorresponding to the SID is greater than an energy of a high-band signalof a previous CN frame that is locally buffered, the energy of thehigh-band signal of the previous CN frame that is locally buffered isupdated at a first rate; otherwise, the energy of the high-band signalof the previous CN frame that is locally buffered is updated at a secondrate, where the first rate is greater than the second rate.

Optionally, in this embodiment, the obtaining a weighted average energyof a noise high-band signal at a moment corresponding to the SIDincludes: selecting a high-band signal of a speech frame with a minimumhigh-band signal energy from speech frames within a preset period oftime before the SID; and obtaining, according to an energy of thehigh-band signal of the speech frame with the minimum high-band signalenergy among the speech frames, the weighted average energy of the noisehigh-band signal at the moment corresponding to the SID, where theweighted average energy of the noise high-band signal at the momentcorresponding to the SID is a high-band signal energy of the first CNframe; or selecting high-band signals of N speech frames with ahigh-band signal energy smaller than a preset threshold from speechframes within a preset period of time before the SID; and obtaining,according to a weighted average energy of the high-band signals of the Nspeech frames, the weighted average energy of the noise high-band signalat the moment corresponding to the SID, where the weighted averageenergy of the noise high-band signal at the moment corresponding to theSID is a high-band signal energy of the first CN frame.

Optionally, in this embodiment, the obtaining a synthesis filtercoefficient of the noise high-band signal at a moment corresponding tothe SID includes: distributing M ISF (Immittance Spectral Frequency)coefficients or ISP coefficients or Line Spectral Frequency (LSF)coefficients or Line Spectral Pair (LSP) coefficients in a frequencyrange corresponding to a high-band signal; performing randomizationprocessing on the M coefficients, where a feature of the randomizationis: causing each coefficient among the M coefficients to graduallyapproach a target value corresponding to each coefficient, where thetarget value is a value in a preset range adjacent to a coefficientvalue, and the target value of each coefficient among the M coefficientschanges after every N frames, where both the M and the N are naturalnumbers; and obtaining, according to the filter coefficients obtained byrandomization processing, the synthesis filter coefficient of the noisehigh-band signal at the moment corresponding to the SID.

Optionally, in this embodiment, the obtaining a synthesis filtercoefficient of the noise high-band signal at a moment corresponding tothe SID includes: obtaining M ISF coefficients or ISP coefficients orLSF coefficients or LSP coefficients of a locally buffered noisehigh-band signal; performing randomization processing on the Mcoefficients, where a feature of the randomization is: causing eachcoefficient among the M coefficients to gradually approach a targetvalue corresponding to each coefficient, where the target value is avalue in a preset range adjacent to a coefficient value, and the targetvalue of each coefficient among the M coefficients changes after every Nframes; and obtaining, according to the filter coefficients obtained byrandomization processing, the synthesis filter coefficient of the noisehigh-band signal at the moment corresponding to the SID.

Optionally, in this embodiment, before the obtaining a first CN frameaccording to the noise low-band parameter obtained by decoding and thelocally generated noise high-band parameter, the method furtherincludes: when history frames adjacent to the SID are encoded speechframes, if an average energy of high-band signals or a part of high-bandsignals that are decoded from the encoded speech frames is smaller thanan average energy of noise high-band signals or a part of the noisehigh-band signals that are generated locally, multiplying noisehigh-band signals of subsequent L frames starting from the SID by asmoothing factor smaller than 1, to obtain a new weighted average energyof the locally generated noise high-band signals; and correspondingly,the obtaining a first CN frame according to the noise low-band parameterobtained by decoding and the locally generated noise high-band parameterincludes: obtaining a fourth CN frame according to the noise low-bandparameter obtained by decoding, the synthesis filter coefficient of thenoise high-band signal at the moment corresponding to the SID, and thenew weighted average energy of the locally generated noise high-bandsignals.

The method embodiment provided by the present invention brings thefollowing beneficial effects: a decoder obtains a SID, and determineswhether the SID includes a low-band parameter and/or a high-bandparameter; if the SID includes the low-band parameter, decodes the SIDto obtain a noise low-band parameter, locally generates a noisehigh-band parameter, and obtains a first CN frame according to the noiselow-band parameter obtained by decoding and the locally generated noisehigh-band parameter; if the SID includes the high-band parameter,decodes the SID to obtain a noise high-band parameter, locally generatesa noise low-band parameter, and obtains a second CN frame according tothe noise high-band parameter obtained by decoding and the locallygenerated noise low-band parameter; and if the SID includes thehigh-band parameter and the low-band parameter, decodes the SID toobtain a noise high-band parameter and a noise low-band parameter, andobtains a third CN frame according to the noise high-band parameter andthe noise low-band parameter obtained by decoding. In this way,different processing manners are used for the high-band signal and thelow-band signal, calculation complexity may be reduced and encoded bitsmay be saved under a premise of not lowering subjective quality of acodec, and bits that are saved help to achieve an objective of reducinga transmission bandwidth or improving overall encoding quality, therebysolving a super-wideband encoding and transmission problem.

Embodiment 3

This embodiment provides a method for processing audio data. At anencoding end, regardless of a low-band CNG noise spectrum or a high-bandCNG noise spectrum, generally, a harmonic structure is lost, andtherefore, in a CNG high-band signal, what is perceptually effective onhearing is mainly an energy of the CNG high-band signal, and not aspectral structure of the CNG high-band signal. Therefore, in DTXtransmission of an super-wideband signal, in many cases, it isunnecessary to transmit a high-band signal spectrum in a SID; instead, aproper method may be used to construct a high-band spectrum locally at adecoding end. The locally constructed high-band spectrum will not causean obvious perceptual distortion. In this way, calculation loads andbits for calculating and encoding the high-band spectrum are saved atthe encoding end. However, for other noise signals, a harmonic structuremay exist in a high-band signal thereof, and constructing a high-bandspectrum locally at the decoding end alone may cause a problem ofperceptual quality deterioration in switching between a CNG segment anda speech segment. Therefore, for such noise, a spectral parameter needsto be transmitted in a SID. It can be seen that a DTX/CNG system thattakes both efficiency and quality into account should be capable ofadaptively selecting to encode or selecting not to encode a high-bandspectral parameter in a SID at the encoding end according to a high-bandfeature of background noise, and reconstructing a CNG frame at thedecoding end by using different decoding methods according to differenttypes of SIDs. In this embodiment, a method for processing audio data isprovided and includes the following: a noise high-band spectrum isanalyzed and classified; a decoder blindly constructs a high-band signalspectrum; when a SID does not include a high-band energy parameter, thedecoder estimates a high-band signal energy; and the decoder switchesbetween different CNG modules, and so on. Referring to FIG. 3,specifically, a method for processing audio data at an encoder endaccording to this embodiment includes:

301. An encoder obtains a noise frame of an audio signal, and decomposesthe noise frame into a noise low-band signal and a noise high-bandsignal.

In this embodiment, because of different encoding rules of the encoder,the encoder obtains a noise frame of an audio signal, and the noiseframe may be a current noise frame, or may be a noise frame buffered atthe encoder end, which is not specifically limited in this embodiment.In this embodiment, super-wideband input audio signals sampled at 32kiloHertz (kHz) are used as an example. The encoder first performsframing processing on the input audio signals, for example, 20milliseconds (ms) (or 640 sampling points) is used as a frame. For thecurrent frame (in this embodiment, the current frame refers to a currentframe to be encoded), the encoder first performs high-pass filtering.Generally, a passband refers to frequencies higher than 50 Hertz (Hz).The high-pass filtered current frame is decomposed into a low-bandsignal s₀ and a high-band signal s₁ by a quadrature mirror filter (QMF)analysis filter. The low-band signal s₀ is sampled at 16 kHz, andrepresents a 0-8 kHz spectrum of the current frame. The high-band signals₁ is also sampled at 16 kHz, and represents a 8-16 kHz spectrum of thecurrent frame. When a Voice Activity Detector (VAD) indicates that thecurrent frame is a foreground signal frame, that is, a speech signalframe, the encoder performs speech encoding on the current frame. Inthis embodiment, that the encoder encodes the encoded speech framepertains to the scope of the prior art, and details are not repeatedlydescribed in this embodiment. The VAD indicates that the encoder entersa DTX working state when the current frame is a noise frame. In thisembodiment, the noise frame refers to either a background noise frame ora silence frame.

In this embodiment, in the DTX working state, a DTX controller decides,according to a SID sending policy, whether to encode and send a SID ofthe low-band signal of the current frame. In this embodiment, the policyfor sending a SID of a low-band signal is as follows: (1) sending a SIDin a first noise frame after an encoded speech frame, and setting a SIDsending flag flag_(SID) to 1; (2) in a noise period, sending a SID framein an N^(th) frame after each SID frame, and setting flag_(SID) to 1 inthe frame, where N is an integer greater than 1 and is externally inputto the encoder; and (3) in the noise period, sending no SID in otherframes, and setting flag_(SID) to 0. In this embodiment, the policy forsending a SID of a low-band signal is similar to that of the prior art,and is not described in detail in the present invention.

302. Determine whether the high-band signal of the current noise framesatisfies a preset encoding and transmission condition; if yes, performstep 304; if not, perform step 303.

In this embodiment, the determining whether the high-band signal of thecurrent noise frame satisfies a preset encoding and transmissioncondition includes: determining whether the noise high-band signal has apreset spectral structure; if yes, and a sending condition of a policyfor sending the second SID is satisfied, encoding a SID of the noisehigh-band signal by using the policy for encoding the second SID, andsending the SID; and if not, determining that the noise high-band signaldoes not need to be encoded and transmitted. The determining whether thenoise high-band signal has a preset spectral structure includes:obtaining a spectrum of the noise high-band signal, dividing thespectrum into at least two sub-bands, and if an average energy of anyfirst sub-band in the sub-bands is not smaller than an average energy ofa second sub-band in the sub-bands, where a frequency band in which thesecond sub-band is located is higher than a frequency band in which thefirst sub-band is located, determining that the noise high-band signalhas no preset spectral structure; otherwise, determining that the noisehigh-band signal has a preset spectral structure.

In this embodiment, in the DTX working state, the encoder performsspectral analysis on the high-band signal s₁ of the current noise frameto determine whether s₁ has an apparent spectral structure, that is, apreset spectral structure. A specific method in this embodiment is asfollows: down sampling to 12.8 kHz is performed on s₁, and 256-pointFast Fourier Transform (FFT) is performed on the down-sampled signal toobtain a spectrum C(i), where i=0, . . . 127. C(i) is divided into foursub-bands of an equal width, and an energy E(i) of each sub-band iscalculated. Each sub-band is any first sub-band mentioned above.

${{E(i)} = {\sum\limits_{i = {l{(i)}}}^{h{(i)}}\;{C(i)}}},$where i=0, . . . 3, l(i) and h(i) respectively represent an upperboundary and a lower boundary of the i^(th) sub-band, l(i)={0, 32, 64,96}, and h(i)={31, 63, 95, 127}. Whether the following condition issatisfied is checked:E(i)∀E(j) j>i  (1)where, E(j) is the second sub-band mentioned above. If the foregoingformula (1) is satisfied, that is, if the energy of any first sub-bandin the sub-bands is not smaller than the energy of the second sub-bandin the sub-bands, it is considered that the high-band signal does nothave an apparent spectral structure; otherwise, the high-band signal hasan apparent spectral structure. If the high-band signal has an apparentspectral structure, a DTX policy is sending a high-band parameter. Inthis embodiment, if a high-band parameter sending flag flag_(hb) is not1, flag_(hb)=1 is set next time when flag_(SID)=1; otherwise,flag_(hb)=0.

In this embodiment, when the SID sending condition is satisfied, whetherit is necessary to encode and transmit the high-band signal of thecurrent noise frame may be determined by using the spectral structure ofthe high-band signal of the current noise frame, and the determiningwhether the noise high-band signal has a preset spectral structure andwhether the noise low-band signal satisfies the SID sending condition isused as a first determining condition. Optionally, in this embodiment,the determining whether the high-band signal of the current noise framesatisfies a preset encoding and sending condition includes: generating adeviation according to a first ratio and a second ratio, where the firstratio is a ratio of an energy of the noise high-band signal to an energyof the noise low-band signal of the noise frame, and the second ratio isa ratio of an energy of a noise high-band signal to an energy of a noiselow-band signal at a moment when a SID including a noise high-bandparameter is sent last time before the noise frame; and determiningwhether the deviation reaches a preset threshold; if yes, encoding a SIDof the noise high-band signal by using the policy for encoding thesecond SID, and sending the SID; and if not, determining that the noisehigh-band signal does not need to be encoded and transmitted.Optionally, that the first ratio is a ratio of an energy of the noisehigh-band signal to an energy of the noise low-band signal of the noiseframe includes that: the first ratio is a ratio of an instant energy ofthe noise high-band signal to an instant energy of the noise low-bandsignal of the noise frame; and correspondingly, that the second ratio isa ratio of an energy of a noise high-band signal to an energy of a noiselow-band signal at a moment when a SID including a noise high-bandparameter is sent last time before the noise frame includes that: thesecond ratio is a ratio of an instant energy of the noise high-bandsignal to an instant energy of the noise low-band signal at the momentwhen the SID including the noise high-band parameter is sent last timebefore the noise frame. Alternatively, that the first ratio is a ratioof an energy of the noise high-band signal to an energy of the noiselow-band signal of the noise frame includes that: the first ratio is aratio of a weighted average energy of noise high-band signals of thenoise frame and a noise frame prior to the noise frame to a weightedaverage energy of noise low-band signals of the noise frame and thenoise frame prior to the noise frame; and correspondingly, that thesecond ratio is a ratio of an energy of a noise high-band signal to anenergy of a noise low-band signal at a moment when a SID including anoise high-band parameter is sent last time before the noise frameincludes that: the second ratio is a ratio of a weighted average energyof high-band signals to a weighted average energy of low-band signals ofa noise frame and a noise frame prior to the noise frame at the momentwhen the SID including the noise high-band parameter is sent last timebefore the noise frame. In this embodiment, preferably, the generating adeviation according to a first ratio and a second ratio includes:separately calculating a logarithmic value of the first ratio and alogarithmic value of the second ratio; and calculating an absolute valueof a difference between the logarithmic value of the first ratio and thelogarithmic value of the second ratio, to obtain the deviation.

Specifically, in this embodiment, the determining whether the deviationreaches a preset threshold may be implemented in the following manner:

In the DTX working state, the encoder separately calculates logarithmicenergies e₁ and e₀ of the high-band signal s₁ and low-band signal s₀ ofthe current frame.e _(x)=10·log₁₀(Σs _(x)(i)²) x=0,1 i=0,1, . . . ,319  (2)

Long-term moving averages e_(1a) and e_(0a) of e₁ and e₀ at the encodingend are updated:e _(xa) =e _(xa) ⁽⁻¹⁾+α·sign[e _(xa) −e _(xa) ⁽⁻¹⁾]·MIN└|e _(xa) −e_(xa) ⁽⁻¹⁾|,3┘ x=0,1  (3)where, sign[.] represents a sign function, MIN[.] represents a minimumfunction, |.| represents an absolute value function, form x⁽⁻¹⁾represents a value of a previous frame x, and α=0.1 is a forgettingfactor that decides whether an updating speed is high or low. Theprevious frame is the SID that is sent last time before the currentnoise frame and includes the noise high-band parameter. In thisembodiment, an update magnitude of e_(1a) and e_(0a) is limited. If anenergy variation between e_(x) of the current noise frame and e_(xa) ofthe previous frame is greater than 3 decibels (dB), e_(xa) of thecurrent frame is updated by 3 dB. When the encoder enters the DTXworking state for the first time, e_(xa) is initialized as e_(x) of thecurrent frame. The encoder checks whether a deviation between the ratio(namely, the first ratio) of the energy of the high-band signal to theenergy of the low-band signal of the current noise frame and the ratio(the second ratio) of the energy of the high band to the energy of thelow band at the moment when the SID including the high-band parameter issent last time reaches an extent, that is, checks whether the followingcondition is satisfied:|(e _(0a) −e _(1a))−(e _(0a) ⁻ −e _(1a) ⁻)|>4.5  (4)where, e_(0a) ⁻ and e_(1a) ⁻ respectively represent a high-bandlogarithmic energy and a low-band logarithmic energy at the moment whenthe SID frame including the high-band parameter is sent last time. Ifthe foregoing formula (4) is satisfied, the noise high-band signal needsto be encoded and transmitted. If the high-band parameter sending flagflag_(hb)=0, flag_(hb)=1 is set.

In this embodiment, long-term moving averaging is one type of weightedaverage calculation, which is not specifically limited in thisembodiment.

In this embodiment, the determining whether the deviation reaches apreset threshold may be used as a second determining condition. In aspecific implementation process, to determine whether the noisehigh-band signal needs to be encoded and transmitted, either the firstdetermining condition or the second determining condition just needs tobe determined, which is not specifically limited in this embodiment.

In this embodiment, the second determining condition is optional. Apurpose of performing this step is to assist a decoding end in locallyestimating the energy of the high-band noise according to the energy ofthe noise low band and the ratio of the energy of the noise high band tothe energy of the noise low band at the moment when the SID includingthe high-band parameter is sent last time. Specifically, if thedeviation is not calculated at the encoding end, a speech frame with aminimum high-band signal energy may be obtained at the decoding end fromspeech frames within a period of time before the current noise frame,and the energy of the current high-band noise is estimated locallyaccording to an energy of a high-band signal of the speech frame withthe minimum high-band signal energy among the speech frames within theperiod of time before the current noise frame. For example, the energyof the high-band signal of the speech frame with the minimum high-bandsignal energy among the speech frames within the period of time beforethe current noise frame is selected as the energy of the currenthigh-band noise. Alternatively, high-band signals of N speech frameswith a high-band signal energy smaller than a preset threshold areselected from speech frames within a preset period of time before theSID; and the weighted average energy of the noise high-band signal atthe moment corresponding to the SID is obtained according to a weightedaverage energy of the high-band signals of the N speech frames.Specifically, no limitation is set in this embodiment.

303. Transmit the noise low-band signal by using a first discontinuoustransmission mechanism.

In this embodiment, preferably, the transmitting the noise low-bandsignal by using a first discontinuous transmission mechanism includes:in the DTX working state, the encoder performs 16^(th)-order linearprediction analysis on the low-band signal s₀ of the current noiseframe, and obtains 16 LPCs lpc(i), where i=0, 1, . . . , 15. The LPCsare transformed to ISP coefficients to obtain 16 ISP coefficientsisp(i), where i=0, 1, . . . , 15, and the ISP coefficients are buffered.If a SID is encoded in the current frame, that is, flag_(SID)=1, amedian ISP coefficient is searched in buffered ISP coefficients of Nhistory frames including the current frame. A method is as follows:first, calculate a distance δ from an ISP coefficient of each frame toan ISP coefficient of another frame:

$\begin{matrix}{{\delta_{k} = {\sum\limits_{j = 0}^{{- N} + 1}\;{\sum\limits_{i = 0}^{15}\;( {{{lsp}^{(k)}(i)} - {{lsp}^{(j)}(i)}} )^{2}}}}{{j \neq k},{k = 0},{- 1},\ldots\mspace{14mu},{{{- N} + 1};}}} & (5)\end{matrix}$then, select an ISP coefficient of a frame with the smallest δ as an ISPcoefficient isp_(SID)(i) to be encoded, where i=0, . . . , 15; transformisp_(SID)(i) to an ISF coefficient isf_(SID)(i), quantize theisf_(SID)(i), obtain and encapsulate a group of quantized indexesidx_(ISF) into the SID; locally decode the idx_(ISF); obtain a decodedISF coefficient isf′(i), where i=0, . . . , 15; transform isf′(i) to anISP coefficient isp′(i), where i=0, . . . , 15, buffer the isp′(i); foreach noise frame, update a long-term moving average of the decoded ISPcoefficients of the encoding end by using the buffered isp′(i):isp _(a)(i)=α·isp _(a) ⁽⁻¹⁾(i)+(1−α)·isp′(i) i=0,1, . . . 15  (6)where, preferably, α=0.9, and isp_(a)(i) is initialized as isp′(i) of afirst SID; transform isp_(a)(i) to an LPC lpc_(a)(i), obtain an analysisfilter A(Z); filter the low-band signal s₀ of each noise frame by theA(Z) to obtain a residual signal r(i), where i=0, 1, . . . 319, andcalculate a logarithmic residual energy e_(r):

$\begin{matrix}{{e_{r} = {{{\log_{2}( {\sum\limits_{i = 0}^{319}\;{r(i)}^{2}} )}\mspace{31mu} i} = 0}},1,{\ldots\mspace{14mu} 319}} & (7)\end{matrix}$

In this embodiment, e_(r) is buffered. When the flag_(SID) of thecurrent noise frame is 1, a weighted average logarithmic energy e_(SID)is calculated according to buffered e_(r) of M history frames includingthe current noise frame:

${e_{SID} = {\frac{\sum\limits_{k = 0}^{{- M} + 1}\;{{w_{1}(k)} \cdot e_{r}^{(k)}}}{\sum\limits_{k = 0}^{{- M} + 1}\;{w_{1}(k)}} - 1.5}},$where w₁(k) is a group of M-dimensional positive coefficients, and a sumthereof is smaller than 1. e_(SID) is quantized, and a quantized indexidx_(e) is obtained.

In this embodiment, in the DTX working state, when flag_(SID)=1, ifflag_(hb)=0, only a low-band parameter is encoded and sent in a SIDframe, and in this case, the SID frame is formed of the idx_(ISF) andidx_(e), and is referred to as a small SID frame for convenience.

In this embodiment, the policy for encoding and transmitting a noiselow-band signal is similar to a policy for encoding and transmitting anoise wideband signal in the prior art. Only a brief introduction isprovided in this embodiment. The specific implementation process is notdescribed in detail in this embodiment. In this embodiment, the noisehigh-band signal of the current noise frame does not need to be encoded,and only the noise low-band signal is encoded. Therefore, a calculationload is reduced at the encoding end, and transmission bits are saved.

304. Transmit the noise low-band signal by using a first discontinuoustransmission mechanism, and transmit the noise high-band signal by usinga second discontinuous transmission mechanism.

In this embodiment, if flag_(hb)=1, in addition that a low-bandparameter needs to be encoded, a high-band parameter also needs to beencoded in a SID. The encoding of a low-band parameter of low-band noiseis the same as the encoding mode in step 303, and details are notrepeatedly described in this embodiment. In this embodiment, preferably,the method for encoding a high-band parameter is as follows: only whenthe encoder is in the DTX working state and flag_(SID)=1, the encoderperforms 10^(th)-order linear prediction analysis on the high-bandsignal s₁ of the current frame, and obtains 10 linear predictioncoefficients lpc(i), where i=0, 1, . . . , 9. lpc(i) is weighted:lpc _(w)(i)=w ₂(i)·lpc(i) i=0,1, . . . 9  (8)and a weighted LPC lpc_(w)(i) is obtained, where w₂(i) represents agroup of 9-dimensional weighting factors that are smaller than or equalto 1. lpc_(w)(i) is transformed to an LSP coefficient to obtain 10 LSPcoefficients lsp_(w) (i), where i=0, 1, . . . , 9, and a long-termmoving average of lsp_(w) (i) of the encoding end is updated accordingto lsp_(w) (i).lsp _(a)(i)=α·lsp _(a) ⁽⁻¹⁾(i)+(1−α)·lsp _(w)(i) i=0,1, . . . 9  (9)where, preferably, α=0.9, and lsp_(a) (i) is initialized as lsp_(w) (i)of the current frame every time when flag_(hb) changes from 0 to 1. Whenthe SID needs to include high-band parameters, lsp_(a) (i) is quantized,and a group of quantized indexes idx_(LSP) is obtained. A long-termmoving average e_(1a) of logarithmic energies of the high-band signalsat the encoding end is quantized, and an quantized index idx_(E) isobtained. In this case, the SID is formed of the idx_(ISF), idx_(e),idx_(LSP), and idx_(E). In this embodiment, the SID formed of theidx_(ISF), idx_(e), idx_(LSP), and idx_(E) is referred to as a largeSID.

Optionally, lsp_(a) (i) may also be updated continuously in the DTXworking state. That is, no matter whether the value of flag_(hb) is 1 or0, lsp_(a) (i) is updated. Specifically, the method for updating lsp_(a)(i) when flag_(hb)=0 is the same as the foregoing method whenflag_(hb)=1, and details are not repeatedly described in thisembodiment.

In this embodiment, a principle of the policy for encoding a noisehigh-band signal is similar to that of the policy for encoding a noiselow-band signal. Only a brief introduction is provided in thisembodiment. The specific implementation process is not described indetail in this embodiment.

In this embodiment, when the condition for encoding and transmitting anoise high-band signal is satisfied, the encoding and transmission ofthe noise high-band signal are always performed simultaneously with theencoding and transmission of a noise low-band signal. However,optionally, the encoding and transmission of the noise high-band signalmay also not be performed simultaneously with the encoding andtransmission of the noise low-band signal. That is, when the SID issent, three possible cases may exist: (1) only the low-band signal ofthe current noise frame is encoded and transmitted; (2) only thehigh-band signal of the current noise frame is encoded and transmitted;and (3) the low-band signal and the high-band signal of the currentnoise frame are encoded and transmitted simultaneously, and in thiscase, the sending condition in the policy for sending the second SID ofthe second discontinuous transmission mechanism further includes thefirst discontinuous transmission mechanism satisfying the first SIDsending condition. The three cases of sending the SID are notspecifically limited in this embodiment.

In this embodiment, steps 302 to 304 are specifically steps of encodingand transmitting the noise low-band signal by using the firstdiscontinuous transmission mechanism, and encoding and transmitting thenoise high-band signal by using the second discontinuous transmissionmechanism, where a policy for sending a first SID of the firstdiscontinuous transmission mechanism is different from a policy forsending a second SID of the second discontinuous transmission mechanism,or a policy for encoding a first SID of the first discontinuoustransmission mechanism is different from a policy for encoding a secondSID of the second discontinuous transmission mechanism.

The method embodiment provided by the present invention brings thefollowing beneficial effects: a current noise frame of an audio signalis obtained, and the current noise frame is decomposed into a noiselow-band signal and a noise high-band signal; then the noise low-bandsignal is encoded and transmitted by using a first discontinuoustransmission mechanism, and the noise high-band signal is encoded andtransmitted by using a second discontinuous transmission mechanism. Inthis way, different processing manners are used for the high-band signaland the low-band signal, calculation complexity may be reduced andencoded bits may be saved under a premise of not lowering subjectivequality of a codec, and bits that are saved help to achieve an objectiveof reducing a transmission bandwidth or improving overall encodingquality, thereby solving a super-wideband encoding and transmissionproblem.

Embodiment 4

This embodiment provides a method for processing audio data. Incomparison with processing of a noise signal at an encoder end, adecoder end may determine, according to a received bit stream, whether acurrent frame is an encoded speech frame or a SID or a NO_DATA frame.The NO_DATA frame is a frame indicating that the encoding end does notencode and send a SID in a noise period. When the current frame is aSID, the decoder may further determine, according to the number of bitsof the SID, whether the SID includes a low-band and/or high-bandparameter. Optionally, the decoder may also determine, according to aspecific identifier inserted in the SID, whether the SID includes alow-band and/or high-band parameter. This requires that an additionalidentifier bit should be added when the SID is encoded. For example,when a first identifier is inserted in the SID, it identifies that theSID includes only a high-band parameter; when a second identifier isinserted, it identifies that the SID includes only a low-band parameter,and when a third identifier is inserted, it identifies that the SIDincludes a high-band parameter and a low-band parameter. If the currentframe is an encoded speech frame, the decoder decodes the speech frame.The specific processing process is similar to that of the prior art, andis not described in detail in this embodiment. When the current frame isa SID or a NO_DATA frame, the decoder selects, according to a specificworking state of CNG, a corresponding method to reconstruct a CN frame.In this embodiment, the CNG has two working states: a half-decoding CNGstate corresponding to a small SID frame, namely, a first CNG state, anda full-decoding CNG state corresponding to a large SID frame, namely, asecond CNG state. In the full-decoding CNG state, the decoderreconstructs a CN frame according to a noise high-band parameter and anoise low-band parameter obtained by decoding a large SID frame. In thehalf-decoding CNG state, the decoder reconstructs a CN frame accordingto a noise low-band parameter obtained by decoding a small SID frame anda locally estimated noise high-band parameter. When the current frame atthe decoding end is a large SID frame, if a CNG working state flagflag_(CNG) is 0 (indicating the half-decoding CNG state), the CNGworking state flag flag_(CNG) is set to 1 (indicating the full-decodingCNG state); otherwise, the original state remains unchanged. Similarly,when the current frame at the decoding end is a small SID frame, if theCNG working state flag flag_(CNG) is 1, the CNG working state flagflag_(CNG) is set to 0; otherwise, the original state remains unchanged.Referring to FIG. 4, specifically this embodiment provides a method forprocessing audio data at a decoder end, where the method includes thefollowing:

401. A decoder obtains a SID, and if the SID includes a high-bandparameter and a low-band parameter, decodes the SID to obtain a noisehigh-band parameter and a noise low-band parameter, and obtains a thirdCN frame according to the noise high-band parameter and the noiselow-band parameter obtained by decoding.

In this embodiment, after receiving an encoded speech frame sent by anencoder end, the decoder end first determines the type of the speechframe, so that different decoding manners are correspondingly usedaccording to different types of speech frames. Specifically, if thenumber of bits of the SID is smaller than a preset first threshold, itis determined that the SID includes the high-band parameter; if thenumber of bits of the SID is greater than a preset first threshold andsmaller than a preset second threshold, it is determined that the SIDincludes the low-band parameter; and if the number of bits of the SID isgreater than a preset second threshold and smaller than a preset thirdthreshold, it is determined that the SID includes the high-bandparameter and the low-band parameter. Alternatively, if the SID includesa first identifier, it is determined that the SID includes the high-bandparameter; if the SID includes a second identifier, it is determinedthat the SID includes the low-band parameter; or if the SID includes athird identifier, it is determined that the SID includes the low-bandparameter and the high-band parameter.

In this embodiment, if the SID includes the high-band parameter and thelow-band parameter, the SID is decoded to obtain the noise high-bandparameter and the noise low-band parameter, and the third CN frame isobtained according to the noise high-band parameter and the noiselow-band parameter obtained by decoding. Specifically, the decoderdecodes the SID to obtain a decoded low-band excitation logarithmicenergy e_(D), a low-band ISF coefficient isf_(d)(i), a high-bandlogarithmic energy E_(D), and a high-band LSP coefficient lsp_(d)(i).isf_(d)(i) is transformed an ISP coefficient isp_(d)(i), and e_(D) andE_(D) are transformed to energies e_(d) and E_(d), whereE_(d)=10^(0.1·E) ^(D) and e_(d)=2^(e) ^(D) , and then isp_(d)(i), e_(d),lsp_(d)(i), and E_(d) are buffered.

In this embodiment, when the decoder is in the CNG working state andflag_(CNG)=1, no matter whether the current frame is a SID or a NO_DATAframe, the buffered isp_(d)(i), e_(d), lsp_(d)(i), and E_(d) are used toupdate a long-term moving average of each of the buffered isp_(d)(i),e_(d), lsp_(d)(i), and E_(d) at the decoding end:isp _(CN)(i)=α·isp _(CN) ⁽⁻¹⁾(i)+(1−α)·isp _(d)(i) i=0,1, . . . 15lsp _(CN)(i)=β·lsp _(CN) ⁽⁻¹⁾(i)+(1−β)·lsp _(d)(i) i=0,1, . . . 9e _(CN) =β·e _(CN) ⁽⁻¹⁾+(1−β)·e _(d)E _(CN) =β·E _(CN) ⁽⁻¹⁾+(1−β)·E _(d)  (10)where, α=0.9, and β=0.7. E_(CN) is buffered to a high-band energy bufferE_(1old). A random small energy is added on the basis of e_(CN), and afinal excitation energy e′_(CN) used to reconstruct a low-band noisesignal is obtained: e′_(CN)=(1+0.000011·RND·e_(CN))·e_(CN), where RNDrepresents a random number within a range of [−32767, 32767]. In thisembodiment, a 320-point white noise sequence exc₀(i) is generated, wherei=0, 1, . . . 319. e′_(CN) is used to perform gain adjustment on exc₀(i)to obtain exc′₀(i), that is, exc₀(i) is multiplied by a gain coefficientG₀, so that the energy of exc′₀(i) is equal to e′_(CN), where

$G_{0} = {\sqrt[2]{\frac{e_{CN}^{\prime}}{\sum\limits_{i = 0}^{319}\;{{exc}_{0}(i)}}}.}$isp_(CN)(i) is transformed to an LPC to obtain a synthesis filter1/A₀(Z), the gain-adjusted excitation exc′₀(i) is used to excite thefilter 1/A(Z) to obtain a low-band CN signal s′₀ that is reconstructedat the decoding end and sampled at 16 kHz, and an energy of s′₀ iscalculated and buffered to a low-band energy buffer E_(0old).

In this embodiment, the processing of a noise high-band signal at thedecoding end is similar to the processing of a noise low-band signal.Another 320-point white noise sequence exc₁(i) is generated, where i=0,1, . . . 319, lsp_(CN)(i) is transformed to an LPC to obtain a synthesisfilter 1/A₁(Z), and exc₁(i) is used to excite the filter 1/A₁(Z) toobtain a gain-unadjusted high-band CN signal s^(˜) ₁(i). s^(˜) ₁(i) ismultiplied by gain coefficients G₁ and G₂, where G₂=0.8, and a high-bandCN signal s′₁ that is reconstructed at the decoding end and sampled at16 kHz is obtained, where,

$G_{1} = {\sqrt[2]{\frac{E_{CN}}{\sum\limits_{i = 0}^{319}\;{s_{1}^{\sim}(i)}}}.}$In this embodiment, the purpose of G₂ is to perform energy suppressionon the reconstructed noise signal to some extent.

In this embodiment, at the decoder end, s′₀ and s′₁ are passed through aQMF synthesis filter, and finally a first CN frame that is reconstructedby the decoder and sampled at 32 kHz is obtained.

402. If the SID includes the low-band parameter, decode the SID toobtain a noise low-band parameter, locally generate a noise high-bandparameter, and obtain a first CN frame according to the noise low-bandparameter obtained by decoding and the locally generated noise high-bandparameter.

In this embodiment, when the decoder is in the CNG working state andflag_(CNG)=0, no matter whether the current frame is a SID or a NO_DATAframe, a low-band CN signal s′₀ that is reconstructed at the decodingend and sampled at 16 kHz is obtained according to the same method thatis used when flag_(CNG)=1, namely, the method in step 402, which is notfurther described in this embodiment.

In this embodiment, a high-band signal of the first CN frame is obtainedstill by using the method of exciting a synthesis filter by using whitenoise, except that an energy of the high-band signal of the first CNframe and a synthesis filter coefficient are obtained by performingestimation locally. In this embodiment, the locally generating a noisehigh-band parameter includes: separately obtaining a weighted averageenergy of a noise high-band signal and a synthesis filter coefficient ofthe noise high-band signal at a moment corresponding to the SID; andobtaining the noise high-band signal according to the obtained weightedaverage energy of the noise high-band signal and the obtained synthesisfilter coefficient of the noise high-band signal at the momentcorresponding to the SID.

In this embodiment, preferably, the obtaining a weighted average energyof a noise high-band signal at a moment corresponding to the SIDincludes: obtaining an energy of a low-band signal of the first CN frameaccording to the noise low-band parameter obtained by decoding;calculating a ratio of an energy of a noise high-band signal to anenergy of a noise low-band signal at a moment when a SID including ahigh-band parameter is received before the SID, to obtain a first ratio;obtaining, according to the energy of the low-band signal of the firstCN frame and the first ratio, an energy of the noise high-band signal atthe moment corresponding to the SID; and performing weighted averagingon the energy of the noise high-band signal at the moment correspondingto the SID and an energy of a high-band signal of a locally buffered CNframe, to obtain the weighted average energy of the noise high-bandsignal at the moment corresponding to the SID, where the weightedaverage energy of the noise high-band signal at the moment correspondingto the SID is a high-band signal energy of the first CN frame.Optionally, the calculating a ratio of an energy of a noise high-bandsignal to an energy of a noise low-band signal at a moment when a SIDincluding a high-band parameter is received before the SID, to obtain afirst ratio, includes: calculating a ratio of an instant energy of thenoise high-band signal to an instant energy of the noise low-band signalat the moment when the SID including the high-band parameter is receivedbefore the SID, to obtain the first ratio; or calculating a ratio of aweighted average energy of the noise high-band signal to a weightedaverage energy of the noise low-band signal at the moment when the SIDincluding the high-band parameter is received before the SID, to obtainthe first ratio. The instant energy is the energy obtained by decoding.When the energy of the noise high-band signal at the momentcorresponding to the SID is greater than an energy of a high-band signalof a previous CN frame that is locally buffered, the energy of thehigh-band signal of the previous CN frame that is locally buffered isupdated at a first rate; otherwise, the energy of the high-band signalof the previous CN frame that is locally buffered is updated at a secondrate, where the first rate is greater than the second rate.

Specifically, in this embodiment, the obtaining a weighted averageenergy of a noise high-band signal at a moment corresponding to the SIDmay be implemented by using the following method: obtaining an energy E₀of the low-band signal of the first CN frame s′₀ according to the noiselow-band parameter obtained by decoding; estimating, according to theenergy E_(1old) of the high-band signal and E_(0old) of the low-bandsignal of the previous CN frame in the full-decoding CNG state and E₀,an energy E^(˜) ₁ of the noise high-band signal at the momentcorresponding to the SID, where

${E_{1}^{\sim} = {( \frac{E_{1\;{old}}}{E_{0\;{old}}} ) \cdot E_{0}}};$and updating a long-term moving average E_(CN) of high-band CN signalenergies at the decoding end by using E^(˜) ₁: E_(CN)=λ·E_(CN)⁽⁻¹⁾+(1−λ)·E₁ ^(˜), where a coefficient λ is a variable, when E^(˜)₁>E_(CN), λ=0.98; otherwise, λ=0.9, where λ=0.98 is a first rate, andλ=0.9 is a second rate.

In this embodiment, if a deviation is not calculated at the encodingend, optionally, the obtaining a weighted average energy of a noisehigh-band signal at a moment corresponding to the SID includes:selecting a high-band signal of a speech frame with a minimum high-bandsignal energy from speech frames within a preset period of time beforethe SID; and obtaining, according to an energy of the high-band signalof the speech frame with the minimum high-band signal energy among thespeech frames, the weighted average energy of the noise high-band signalat the moment corresponding to the SID; or selecting high-band signalsof N speech frames with a high-band signal energy smaller than a presetthreshold from speech frames within a preset period of time before theSID; and obtaining, according to a weighted average energy of thehigh-band signals of the N speech frames, the weighted average energy ofthe noise high-band signal at the moment corresponding to the SID, wherethe weighted average energy of the noise high-band signal at the momentcorresponding to the SID is a high-band signal energy of the first CNframe.

In this embodiment, preferably, the obtaining a synthesis filtercoefficient of the noise high-band signal at a moment corresponding tothe SID includes: distributing M ISF coefficients or ISP coefficients orLSF coefficients or LSP coefficients in a frequency range correspondingto a high-band signal; performing randomization processing on the Mcoefficients, where a feature of the randomization is: causing eachcoefficient among the M coefficients to gradually approach a targetvalue corresponding to each coefficient, where the target value is avalue in a preset range adjacent to a coefficient value, the targetvalue of each coefficient among the M coefficients changes after every Nframes, and N may be a variable; and obtaining, according to the filtercoefficients obtained by randomization processing, the synthesis filtercoefficient of the noise high-band signal at the moment corresponding tothe SID.

Specifically, in this embodiment, the obtaining a synthesis filtercoefficient of the noise high-band signal at a moment corresponding tothe SID may be implemented by using the following method:

Nine ISF coefficients isf_(ext)(i) are evenly distributed in a frequencyband of −16 kHz corresponding to low-band ISF coefficients isf_(d)(14),where i=0, 1, . . . 8:isf _(ext)(i)=isf _(d)(14)+0.1·(i+1)·(16000−isf _(d)(14)) i=0,1, . . .8  (11)isf_(ext)(i) is transformed to a frequency band of 0-8 kHz, andisf_(ext)(i) is obtained:isf′ _(ext)(i)=isf _(ext)(i)−8000 i=0,1, . . . 8  (12)isf′_(ext)(i) is randomized by using a group of 9-dimensionalrandomization factors R(i), where i=0, 1, . . . 8, and a randomized ISFcoefficient isf₁(i) is obtained:isf ₁(i)=R(i)·(isf′ _(ext)(1)−isf′ _(ext)(0))+isf′ _(ext)(i) i=0,1, . .. 8  (13)where, R(i) is obtained according to the following formula (14):R(i)=α·R ⁽⁻¹⁾(i)+(1−α)·R _(t)(i) i=0,1, . . . 8  (14)where, α=0.8, and R_(t)(i) is referred to as a target randomizationfactor, and obtained according to the following formula:

$\begin{matrix}{{R_{t}(i)} = \{ {{{\begin{matrix}{1 + {0.1 \cdot {{RND}(i)}}} & {{{mod}( {{cnt},10} )} = 0} \\{R_{t}^{({- 1})}(i)} & {{{mod}( {{cnt},10} )} \neq 0}\end{matrix}\mspace{31mu} i} = 0},1,{\ldots\mspace{14mu} 8}} } & (15)\end{matrix}$

In the foregoing formula (15), RND represents a group of 9-dimensionalrandom number sequences, and random numbers in each dimension aredifferent from each other and all fall within a range of [−1, 1]. cnt isa frame counter. In the CNG working state, when flag_(CNG)=0, for eachSID frame or NO_DATA frame, 1 is added to the counter. mod(cnt, 10)represents cnt mod 10. In another embodiment, when R_(t)(i) iscalculated, 10 in mod(cnt, 10) may also be a variable, for example,

$\begin{matrix}{{R_{t}(i)} = \{ {{{\begin{matrix}{1 + {0.1 \cdot {{RND}(i)}}} & {{{mod}( {{cnt},10} )} = 0} \\{R_{t}^{({- 1})}(i)} & {{{mod}( {{cnt},10} )} \neq 0}\end{matrix}\mspace{31mu} i} = 0},1,{{\ldots\mspace{14mu} 8N} = \{ \begin{matrix}{10 + {5 \cdot {RND}}} & {{{mod}( {{cnt},N^{({- 1})}} )} = 0} \\N^{({- 1})} & {{{mod}( {{cnt},N^{({- 1})}} )} \neq 0}\end{matrix} }} } & (16)\end{matrix}$where, RND represents a random number within a range of [−1, 1], whichis not specifically limited in this embodiment.

In this embodiment, a low-band ISF coefficient isf_(d)(15) is used asisf₁(9), and synthesized with a randomized ISF coefficient isf₁(i),where i=0, 1, . . . 8, to form a 10^(th)-order filter ISF coefficient,which is then transformed to an LPC lpc₁(i), where i=0, 1, . . . 9.lpc₁(i) is multiplied by a group of 10-dimensional weighting factorsW(i)={0.6699, 0.5862, 0.5129, 0.4488, 0.3927, 0.3436, 0.3007, 0.2631,0.2302, 0.2014}, and a weighted LPC lpc^(˜) ₁(i) is obtained, that is, asynthesis filter 1/A^(˜) ₁(Z) is estimated.

In this embodiment, a 320-point white noise sequence exc₂(i) isgenerated, where i=0, 1, . . . 319, and exc₂(i) is used to excite thefilter 1/A^(˜) ₁(Z) to obtain a gain-unadjusted high-band CN signals^(˜) ₁(i). s^(˜) ₁(i) is multiplied by gain coefficients G₃ and G₄,where G₄=0.6, and a high-band CN signal s′₁ that is reconstructed at thedecoding end and sampled at 16 kHz is obtained, where

$G_{3} = {\sqrt[2]{\frac{E_{CN}}{\sum\limits_{i = 0}^{319}\;{s_{1}^{\sim}(i)}}}.}$

If the current frame is a SID, it is necessary to transform lpc^(˜) ₁(i)to an LSP coefficient lsp^(˜) ₁(i), and use lsp^(˜) ₁(i) to update along-term moving average of LSP coefficients of high-band signals of CNframes buffered at the decoding end:lsp _(CN)(i)=β·lsp _(CN) ⁽⁻¹⁾(i)+(1−β)·lsp ₁ ^(˜)(i) i=0,1, . . .9  (17)where, β=0.7.

In this embodiment, optionally, the obtaining a synthesis filtercoefficient of the noise high-band signal at a moment corresponding tothe SID includes: obtaining M ISF coefficients or ISP coefficients orLSF coefficients or LSP coefficients of a locally buffered noisehigh-band signal; performing randomization processing on the Mcoefficients, where a feature of the randomization is: causing eachcoefficient among the M coefficients to gradually approach a targetvalue corresponding to each coefficient, where the target value is avalue in a preset range adjacent to a coefficient value, and the targetvalue of each coefficient among the M coefficients changes after every Nframes; and obtaining, according to the filter coefficients obtained byrandomization processing, the synthesis filter coefficient of the noisehigh-band signal at the moment corresponding to the SID. Specifically,no limitation is set in this embodiment.

In this embodiment, after the low-band parameter and high-band parameterare obtained, s′₀ and s′₁ are passed through a QMF synthesis filter, andfinally a first CN frame that is reconstructed by the decoder andsampled at 32 kHz is obtained.

Further, in this embodiment, optionally, before the first CN frame isobtained according to the noise low-band parameter obtained by decodingand the locally generated noise high-band parameter, the locallygenerated noise high-band parameter may be further optimized, so thatcomfort noise of a better effect can be obtained. A specificoptimization step includes: when history frames adjacent to the SID areencoded speech frames, if an average energy of high-band signals or apart of high-band signals that are decoded from the encoded speechframes is smaller than an average energy of noise high-band signals or apart of the noise high-band signals that are generated locally,multiplying noise high-band signals of subsequent L frames starting fromthe SID by a smoothing factor smaller than 1, to obtain a new weightedaverage energy of the locally generated noise high-band signals; andcorrespondingly, the obtaining a first CN frame according to the noiselow-band parameter obtained by decoding and the locally generated noisehigh-band parameter includes: obtaining a fourth CN frame according tothe noise low-band parameter obtained by decoding, the synthesis filtercoefficient of the noise high-band signal at the moment corresponding tothe SID, and the new weighted average energy of the locally generatednoise high-band signals.

In this embodiment, when a frame before the current SID is an encodedspeech frame, and an energy E_(sp) of a high-band signal of the encodedspeech frame is lower than an energy E_(s′1) of s′₁, it is necessary tosmooth energies of high-band signals of the current SID and subsequentseveral SIDs (50 frames in this embodiment). A specific smoothing methodis: multiplying of the current frame by a gain G_(s), to obtain smootheds′_(1s). G_(s)=²√{square root over (1−0.02·(50−cnt)·(1−E _(s1) ⁻¹ /E_(s′1)))}, where, cnt is a frame counter, 1 is added to the counter foreach frame starting from the first CN frame after the encoded speechframe, and E_(s1) ⁻¹ is an energy of a smoothed high-band signal of aprevious frame and is initialized as E_(sp) when cnt=1. The smoothingprocess is performed on only up to 50 frames. In this period, if E_(s1)⁻¹ is greater than E_(s′1), the smoothing process is terminated.Optionally, E_(s1) ⁻¹ and E_(s′1) may also represent energies of only apart of frames, which is not specifically limited in this embodiment. Inthis embodiment, s′₀ and s′₁ (or s′_(1s)) are passed through a QMFsynthesis filter, and finally a CN frame that is reconstructed by thedecoder and sampled at 32 kHz is obtained.

403. If the SID includes the high-band parameter, decode the SID toobtain a noise high-band parameter, locally generate a noise low-bandparameter, and obtain a second CN frame according to the noise high-bandparameter obtained by decoding and the locally generated noise low-bandparameter.

In this embodiment, if the SID includes the high-band parameter, the SIDis decoded to obtain the high-band parameter, and a noise low-bandparameter is generated locally, and a second CN frame is obtainedaccording to the high-band parameter obtained by decoding and thelocally generated noise low-band parameter. The method for decoding thehigh-band parameter is the same as the method in step 401, and detailsare not repeatedly described in this embodiment. The method for locallygenerating the low-band parameter is the same as the method for locallygenerating a wideband parameter, and details are not repeatedlydescribed in this embodiment.

The method embodiment provided by the present invention brings thefollowing beneficial effects: a decoder obtains a SID, and determineswhether the SID includes a low-band parameter and/or a high-bandparameter; if the SID includes the low-band parameter, decodes the SIDto obtain a noise low-band parameter, locally generates a noisehigh-band parameter, and obtains a first CN frame according to the noiselow-band parameter obtained by decoding and the locally generated noisehigh-band parameter; if the SID includes the high-band parameter,decodes the SID to obtain a noise high-band parameter, locally generatesa noise low-band parameter, and obtains a second CN frame according tothe noise high-band parameter obtained by decoding and the locallygenerated noise low-band parameter; and if the SID includes thehigh-band parameter and the low-band parameter, decodes the SID toobtain a noise high-band parameter and a noise low-band parameter, andobtains a third CN frame according to the noise high-band parameter andthe noise low-band parameter obtained by decoding. In this way,different processing manners are used for the high-band signal and thelow-band signal, calculation complexity may be reduced and encoded bitsmay be saved under a premise of not lowering subjective quality of acodec, and bits that are saved help to achieve an objective of reducinga transmission bandwidth or improving overall encoding quality, therebysolving a super-wideband encoding and transmission problem. In addition,before the second CN frame is obtained according to the noise low-bandparameter obtained by decoding and the locally generated noise high-bandparameter, the locally generated noise high-band parameter may befurther optimized, so that comfort noise of a better effect can beobtained. Thereby, performance of the decoder is further optimized.

Embodiment 5

This embodiment provides a method for processing audio data. Same as inthe method for processing audio data in Embodiment 2, an encoder endobtains a noise frame of an audio signal, and decomposes the noise frameinto a noise low-band signal and a noise high-band signal. However,optionally, determining whether the high-band signal of the noise framesatisfies a preset encoding and transmission condition includes:determining whether a spectral structure of the noise high-band signalof the noise frame, in comparison with an average spectral structure ofnoise high-band signals before the noise frame, satisfies a presetcondition; if yes, encoding a SID of the noise high-band signal of thenoise frame by using the policy for sending the second SID, and sendingthe SID; and if not, determining that the noise high-band signal of thenoise frame does not need to be encoded and transmitted. The averagespectral structure of the noise high-band signals before the noise frameincludes: a weighted average of spectrums of the noise high-band signalsbefore the noise frame. In this embodiment, the determining whether aspectral structure of the noise high-band signal of the noise frame, incomparison with an average spectral structure of noise high-band signalsbefore the noise frame, satisfies a preset condition, is used as a thirdcondition for determining whether to encode and transmit the noisehigh-band signal.

In this embodiment, optionally, whether to encode and transmit the noisehigh-band signal may also be determined by using a second determiningcondition, which is not specifically limited in this embodiment.

In this embodiment, DTX decides whether to encode and transmit ahigh-band parameter, that is, setting of flag_(hb) may be decided byusing the following conditions: (1) whether a third determiningcondition is satisfied; if yes, setting flag_(hb) to 0; otherwise,setting flag_(hb) to 1; and (2) whether the second determining conditionis satisfied; if not, setting flag_(hb) to 0; and if yes, settingflag_(hb) to 1.

In this embodiment, a specific method for implementing the thirddetermining condition may be as follows: the encoder obtains a10^(th)-order LSP coefficient lsp(i) of the noise high-band signal s₁ ofthe current noise frame, where i=0, . . . 9, and optionally, thecoefficient may also be an LSF or ISF or ISP coefficient, which is notspecifically limited in this embodiment. The LSP or LSF or ISF or ISPcoefficient is only a different representation manner in a differentdomain, but all represent a synthesis filter coefficient, which is notspecifically limited in this embodiment. lsp(i) is used to update amoving average thereof:lsp _(a)(i)=α·lsp _(a)(i)+(1−α)·lsp(i) i=0, . . . 9  (18)where, lsp_(a)(i) is a long-term moving average of lsp(i). A spectraldistortion between current lsp_(a)(i) and lsp_(a)(i) at a moment when aSID frame including a high-band parameter is sent last time iscalculated:

${D_{lsp} = {\sum\limits_{i = 0}^{9}\;( {{{lsp}_{a}(i)} - {lsp}_{a}^{-}} )^{2}}},$where, D_(lsp) represents the spectral distortion, and lsp⁻ _(a)represents lsp_(a)(i) at the moment when the SID frame including thehigh-band parameter is sent last time. If D_(lsp) is smaller than acertain threshold, flag_(hb)=0 is set; otherwise, flag_(hb)=1 is set.

In this embodiment, a working method for encoding the low-band parameterand/or the high-band parameter by the encoder when necessary isbasically the same as the working method in Embodiment 3, and detailsare not repeatedly described in this embodiment.

In this embodiment, when a decoder is in a CNG working state andflag_(CNG)=0, it is necessary to locally generate a noise high-bandsignal. The method for obtaining a weighted average energy of a noisehigh-band signal at a moment corresponding to a SID is the same as themethod in Embodiment 4, and details are not repeatedly described in thisembodiment. However, in this embodiment, preferably, obtaining asynthesis filter coefficient of the noise high-band signal at a momentcorresponding to the SID includes: obtaining M ISF coefficients or ISPcoefficients or LSF coefficients or LSP coefficients of a locallybuffered noise high-band signal; performing randomization processing onthe M coefficients, where a feature of the randomization is: causingeach coefficient among the M coefficients to gradually approach a targetvalue corresponding to each coefficient, where the target value is avalue in a preset range adjacent to a coefficient value, and the targetvalue of each coefficient among the M coefficients changes after every Nframes; and obtaining, according to the filter coefficients obtained byrandomization processing, the synthesis filter coefficient of the noisehigh-band signal at the moment corresponding to the SID. Specifically,the obtaining a synthesis filter coefficient of the noise high-bandsignal at a moment corresponding to the SID may be implemented in thefollowing manner:

Assuming lsp′(i)=lsp_(CN)(i), where i=0, . . . 9, lsp_(CN)(i) is along-term moving average of LSP coefficients of high-band signals of CNframes that are locally buffered at the decoding end. Randomizationprocessing is performed on lsp′(i) by using the same method inEmbodiment 4, and lsp₁(i) is obtained:

$\begin{matrix}\{ \begin{matrix}{{{lsp}_{1}(0)} = {{{R(0)} \cdot ( {1 - {{lsp}_{1}(0)}} )} + {{lsp}^{\prime}(0)}}} \\{{{lsp}_{1}(i)} = {{{R(i)} \cdot ( {{{lsp}^{\prime}(i)} - {{lsp}^{\prime}( {i - 1} )}} )} + {{lsp}^{\prime}(i)}}}\end{matrix}  & (19)\end{matrix}$

lsp₁(i) is transformed to an LPC lpc₁(i), and a synthesis filter 1/A^(˜)₁(Z) is obtained after weighting with w(i) by using the same method inEmbodiment 4. In this embodiment, a 320-point white noise sequenceexc₂(i) is generated, where i=0, 1, . . . 319, and exc₂(i) is used toexcite the filter 1/A^(˜) ₁(Z) to obtain a gain-unadjusted high-band CNsignal s^(˜) ₁(i). s^(˜) ₁ (i) is multiplied by a gain coefficient G3,and a high-band signal s′₁ of a CN frame that is reconstructed at thedecoding end and sampled at 16 kHz is obtained. In this embodiment, whenthe current frame is a SID, lsp₁(i) obtained by using this method is notused to update the long-term moving average of the LSP coefficients ofthe high-band signals of the CN frames that are buffered at the decodingend.

In this embodiment, when the encoder encodes a large SID frame, when along-term moving average e_(1a) of logarithmic energies of high-bandsignals is quantized at the encoding end, the quantization is performedafter e_(1a) is attenuated (that is, after a value is subtracted).Therefore, in this case, in decoding, it is unnecessary to multiplys^(˜) ₁(i) by G2 or G4 in Embodiment 4. Other steps of the decoding endin this embodiment are similar to the steps in the foregoing embodiment,and details are not repeatedly described in this embodiment.

The method embodiment provided by the present invention brings thefollowing beneficial effects: a current noise frame of an audio signalis obtained, and the current noise frame is decomposed into a noiselow-band signal and a noise high-band signal; then the noise low-bandsignal is encoded and transmitted by using a first discontinuoustransmission mechanism, and the noise high-band signal is encoded andtransmitted by using a second discontinuous transmission mechanism. Adecoder obtains a SID, and determines whether the SID includes alow-band parameter and/or a high-band parameter; if the SID includes thelow-band parameter, decodes the SID to obtain a noise low-bandparameter, locally generates a noise high-band parameter, and obtains afirst CN frame according to the noise low-band parameter obtained bydecoding and the locally generated noise high-band parameter; if the SIDincludes the high-band parameter, decodes the SID to obtain a noisehigh-band parameter, locally generates a noise low-band parameter, andobtains a second CN frame according to the noise high-band parameterobtained by decoding and the locally generated noise low-band parameter;and if the SID includes the high-band parameter and the low-bandparameter, decodes the SID to obtain a noise high-band parameter and anoise low-band parameter, and obtains a third CN frame according to thenoise high-band parameter and the noise low-band parameter obtained bydecoding. In this way, different processing manners are used for thehigh-band signal and the low-band signal, calculation complexity may bereduced and encoded bits may be saved under a premise of not loweringsubjective quality of a codec, and bits that are saved help to achievean objective of reducing a transmission bandwidth or improving overallencoding quality, thereby solving a super-wideband encoding andtransmission problem.

Embodiment 6

Referring to FIG. 5, this embodiment provides an apparatus for encodingaudio data, where the apparatus includes an obtaining module 501 and atransmitting module 502.

The obtaining module 501 is configured to obtain a noise frame of anaudio signal, and decompose the noise frame into a noise low-band signaland a noise high-band signal.

The transmitting module 502 is configured to encode and transmit thenoise low-band signal by using a first discontinuous transmissionmechanism, and encode and transmit the noise high-band signal by using asecond discontinuous transmission mechanism, where a policy for sendinga first SID of the first discontinuous transmission mechanism isdifferent from a policy for sending a second SID of the seconddiscontinuous transmission mechanism, or a policy for encoding a firstSID of the first discontinuous transmission mechanism is different froma policy for encoding a second SID of the second discontinuoustransmission mechanism.

In this embodiment, the first SID includes a low-band parameter of thenoise frame, and the second SID includes a low-band parameter and/or ahigh-band parameter of the noise frame.

Optionally, referring to FIG. 6, the transmitting module 502 includes: afirst transmitting unit 502 a configured to determine whether the noisehigh-band signal has a preset spectral structure; if yes, and a sendingcondition of the policy for sending the second SID is satisfied, encodea SID of the noise high-band signal by using the policy for encoding thesecond SID, and send the SID; and if not, determine that the noisehigh-band signal does not need to be encoded and transmitted.

In this embodiment, the first transmitting unit 502 a includes: a firstdetermining subunit configured to obtain a spectrum of the noisehigh-band signal, divide the spectrum into at least two sub-bands, andif an average energy of any first sub-band in the sub-bands is notsmaller than an average energy of a second sub-band in the sub-bands,where a frequency band in which the second sub-band is located is higherthan a frequency band in which the first sub-band is located, determinethat the noise high-band signal has no preset spectral structure;otherwise, determine that the noise high-band signal has a presetspectral structure.

Referring to FIG. 6, optionally, the transmitting module 502 includes: asecond transmitting unit 502 b configured to generate a deviationaccording to a first ratio and a second ratio, where the first ratio isa ratio of an energy of the noise high-band signal to an energy of thenoise low-band signal of the noise frame, and the second ratio is aratio of an energy of a noise high-band signal to an energy of a noiselow-band signal at a moment when a SID including a noise high-bandparameter is sent last time before the noise frame; and determinewhether the deviation reaches a preset threshold; if yes, encode a SIDof the noise high-band signal by using the policy for encoding thesecond SID, and send the SID; and if not, determine that the noisehigh-band signal does not need to be encoded and transmitted.

Optionally, that the first ratio is a ratio of an energy of the noisehigh-band signal to an energy of the noise low-band signal of the noiseframe includes that: the first ratio is a ratio of an instant energy ofthe noise high-band signal to an instant energy of the noise low-bandsignal of the noise frame; and correspondingly, that the second ratio isa ratio of an energy of a noise high-band signal to an energy of a noiselow-band signal at a moment when a SID including a noise high-bandparameter is sent last time before the noise frame includes that: thesecond ratio is a ratio of an instant energy of the noise high-bandsignal to an instant energy of the noise low-band signal at the momentwhen the SID including the noise high-band parameter is sent last timebefore the noise frame.

Alternatively, that the first ratio is a ratio of an energy of the noisehigh-band signal to an energy of the noise low-band signal of the noiseframe includes that: the first ratio is a ratio of a weighted averageenergy of noise high-band signals of the noise frame and a noise frameprior to the noise frame to a weighted average energy of noise low-bandsignals of the noise frame and the noise frame prior to the noise frame;and correspondingly, that the second ratio is a ratio of an energy of anoise high-band signal to an energy of a noise low-band signal at amoment when a SID including a noise high-band parameter is sent lasttime before the noise frame includes that: the second ratio is a ratioof a weighted average energy of high-band signals to a weighted averageenergy of low-band signals of a noise frame and a noise frame prior tothe noise frame at the moment when the SID including the noise high-bandparameter is sent last time before the noise frame.

Optionally, in this embodiment, the second transmitting unit 502 bincludes: a calculating subunit configured to separately calculate alogarithmic value of the first ratio and a logarithmic value of thesecond ratio; and calculate an absolute value of a difference betweenthe logarithmic value of the first ratio and the logarithmic value ofthe second ratio, to obtain the deviation.

Referring to FIG. 6, optionally, in this embodiment, the transmittingmodule 502 includes: a third transmitting unit 502 c configured todetermine whether a spectral structure of the noise high-band signal ofthe noise frame, in comparison with an average spectral structure ofnoise high-band signals before the noise frame, satisfies a presetcondition; if yes, encode a SID of the noise high-band signal of thenoise frame by using the policy for sending the second SID, and send theSID; and if not, determine that the noise high-band signal of the noiseframe does not need to be encoded and transmitted.

In this embodiment, optionally, the average spectral structure of thenoise high-band signals before the noise frame includes: a weightedaverage of spectrums of the noise high-band signals before the noiseframe.

Optionally, in this embodiment, the sending condition in the policy forsending the second SID of the second discontinuous transmissionmechanism further includes the first discontinuous transmissionmechanism satisfying a condition for sending the first SID.

The apparatus embodiment provided by the present invention brings thefollowing beneficial effects: a current noise frame of an audio signalis obtained, and the current noise frame is decomposed into a noiselow-band signal and a noise high-band signal; then the noise low-bandsignal is encoded and transmitted by using a first discontinuoustransmission mechanism, and the noise high-band signal is encoded andtransmitted by using a second discontinuous transmission mechanism. Inthis way, different processing manners are used for the high-band signaland the low-band signal, calculation complexity may be reduced andencoded bits may be saved under a premise of not lowering subjectivequality of a codec, and bits that are saved help to achieve an objectiveof reducing a transmission bandwidth or improving overall encodingquality, thereby solving a super-wideband encoding and transmissionproblem.

Embodiment 7

Referring to FIG. 7, this embodiment provides an apparatus for decodingaudio data, where the apparatus includes: an obtaining module 601, afirst decoding module 602, a second decoding module 603, and a thirddecoding module 604.

The obtaining module 601 is configured to determine whether a receivedcurrent SID includes a low-band parameter or a high-band parameter.

The first decoding module 602 is configured to: if the SID obtained bythe obtaining module 601 includes the low-band parameter, decode the SIDto obtain a noise low-band parameter, locally generate a noise high-bandparameter, and obtain a first CN frame according to the noise low-bandparameter obtained by decoding and the locally generated noise high-bandparameter.

The second decoding module 603 is configured to: if the SID obtained bythe obtaining module 601 includes the high-band parameter, decode theSID to obtain a noise high-band parameter, locally generate a noiselow-band parameter, and obtain a second CN frame according to the noisehigh-band parameter obtained by decoding and the locally generated noiselow-band parameter.

The third decoding module 604 is configured to: if the SID obtained bythe obtaining module 601 includes the high-band parameter and thelow-band parameter, decode the SID to obtain a noise high-band parameterand a noise low-band parameter, and obtain a third CN frame according tothe noise high-band parameter and the noise low-band parameter obtainedby decoding.

Optionally, in this embodiment, the first decoding module 602 is furtherconfigured to: before decoding the SID to obtain a noise low-bandparameter, locally generating a noise high-band parameter, and obtaininga first CN frame according to the noise low-band parameter obtained bydecoding and the locally generated noise high-band parameter, if thedecoder is in a first comfort noise generation CNG state, enter a secondCNG state.

Optionally, in this embodiment, the third decoding module 604 is furtherconfigured to: before decoding the SID to obtain a noise high-bandparameter and a noise low-band parameter, and obtaining a third CN frameaccording to the noise high-band parameter and the noise low-bandparameter obtained by decoding, if the decoder is in a second CNG state,enter a first CNG state.

Optionally, the obtaining module 601 includes: a first determining unitconfigured to: if the number of bits of the SID is smaller than a presetfirst threshold, determine that the SID includes the high-bandparameter; if the number of bits of the SID is greater than a presetfirst threshold and smaller than a preset second threshold, determinethat the SID includes the low-band parameter; and if the number of bitsof the SID is greater than a preset second threshold and smaller than apreset third threshold, determine that the SID includes the high-bandparameter and the low-band parameter; or a second determining unitconfigured to: if the SID includes a first identifier, determine thatthe SID includes the high-band parameter; if the SID includes a secondidentifier, determine that the SID includes the low-band parameter; andif the SID includes a third identifier, determine that the SID includesthe low-band parameter and the high-band parameter.

In this embodiment, the first decoding module 602 includes: a firstobtaining unit configured to separately obtain a weighted average energyof a noise high-band signal and a synthesis filter coefficient of thenoise high-band signal at a moment corresponding to the SID; and asecond obtaining unit configured to obtain the noise high-band signalaccording to the obtained weighted average energy of the noise high-bandsignal and the obtained synthesis filter coefficient of the noisehigh-band signal at the moment corresponding to the SID.

Optionally, the first obtaining unit includes: a first obtaining subunitconfigured to obtain an energy of a low-band signal of the first CNframe according to the noise low-band parameter obtained by decoding; acalculating subunit configured to calculate a ratio of an energy of anoise high-band signal to an energy of a noise low-band signal at amoment when a SID including a high-band parameter is received before theSID, to obtain a first ratio; a second obtaining subunit configured toobtain, according to the energy of the low-band signal of the first CNframe and the first ratio, an energy of the noise high-band signal atthe moment corresponding to the SID; and a third obtaining subunitconfigured to perform weighted averaging on the energy of the noisehigh-band signal at the moment corresponding to the SID and an energy ofa high-band signal of a locally buffered CN frame, to obtain theweighted average energy of the noise high-band signal at the momentcorresponding to the SID, where the weighted average energy of the noisehigh-band signal at the moment corresponding to the SID is a high-bandsignal energy of the first CN frame.

The calculating subunit is specifically configured to: calculate a ratioof an instant energy of the noise high-band signal to an instant energyof the noise low-band signal at the moment when the SID including thehigh-band parameter is received before the SID, to obtain the firstratio; or calculate a ratio of a weighted average energy of the noisehigh-band signal to a weighted average energy of the noise low-bandsignal at the moment when the SID including the high-band parameter isreceived before the SID, to obtain the first ratio.

When the energy of the noise high-band signal at the momentcorresponding to the SID is greater than an energy of a high-band signalof a previous CN frame that is locally buffered, the energy of thehigh-band signal of the previous CN frame that is locally buffered isupdated at a first rate; otherwise, the energy of the high-band signalof the previous CN frame that is locally buffered is updated at a secondrate, where the first rate is greater than the second rate.

Optionally, the first obtaining unit includes: a first selecting subunitconfigured to select a high-band signal of a speech frame with a minimumhigh-band signal energy from speech frames within a preset period oftime before the SID, and obtain, according to an energy of the high-bandsignal of the speech frame with the minimum high-band signal energyamong the speech frames, the weighted average energy of the noisehigh-band signal at the moment corresponding to the SID, where theweighted average energy of the noise high-band signal at the momentcorresponding to the SID is a high-band signal energy of the first CNframe; or a second selecting subunit configured to select high-bandsignals of N speech frames with a high-band signal energy smaller than apreset threshold from speech frames within a preset period of timebefore the SID; and obtain, according to a weighted average energy ofthe high-band signals of the N speech frames, the weighted averageenergy of the noise high-band signal at the moment corresponding to theSID, where the weighted average energy of the noise high-band signal atthe moment corresponding to the SID is a high-band signal energy of thefirst CN frame.

Optionally, the first obtaining unit includes: a distributing subunitconfigured to distribute M ISF coefficients or ISP coefficients or LSFcoefficients or LSP coefficients in a frequency range corresponding to ahigh-band signal; a first randomization processing subunit configured toperform randomization processing on the M coefficients, where a featureof the randomization is: causing each coefficient among the Mcoefficients to gradually approach a target value corresponding to eachcoefficient, where the target value is a value in a preset rangeadjacent to a coefficient value, and the target value of eachcoefficient among the M coefficients changes after every N frames, whereboth the M and the N are natural numbers; and a fourth obtaining subunitconfigured to obtain, according to the filter coefficients obtained byrandomization processing, the synthesis filter coefficient of the noisehigh-band signal at the moment corresponding to the SID.

Optionally, the first obtaining unit includes: a fifth obtaining subunitconfigured to obtain M ISF coefficients or ISP coefficients or LSFcoefficients or LSP coefficients of a locally buffered noise high-bandsignal; a second randomization processing subunit configured to performrandomization processing on the M coefficients, where a feature of therandomization is: causing each coefficient among the M coefficients togradually approach a target value corresponding to each coefficient,where the target value is a value in a preset range adjacent to acoefficient value, and the target value of each coefficient among the Mcoefficients changes after every N frames; and a sixth obtaining subunitconfigured to obtain, according to the filter coefficients obtained byrandomization processing, the synthesis filter coefficient of the noisehigh-band signal at the moment corresponding to the SID.

Referring to FIG. 8, optionally, the apparatus further includes: anoptimizing module 605 configured to: before the first decoding module602 obtains the first CN frame, when history frames adjacent to the SIDare encoded speech frames, if an average energy of high-band signals ora part of high-band signals that are decoded from the encoded speechframes is smaller than an average energy of noise high-band signals or apart of the noise high-band signals that are generated locally, multiplynoise high-band signals of subsequent L frames starting from the SID bya smoothing factor smaller than 1, to obtain a new weighted averageenergy of the locally generated noise high-band signals.

Correspondingly, the first decoding module 602 is specificallyconfigured to obtain a fourth CN frame according to the noise low-bandparameter obtained by decoding, the synthesis filter coefficient of thenoise high-band signal at the moment corresponding to the SID, and thenew weighted average energy of the locally generated noise high-bandsignals.

The apparatus embodiment provided by the present invention brings thefollowing beneficial effects: a decoder obtains a SID, and determineswhether the SID includes a low-band parameter or a high-band parameter;if the SID includes the low-band parameter, decodes the SID to obtain anoise low-band parameter, locally generates a noise high-band parameter,and obtains a first CN frame according to the noise low-band parameterobtained by decoding and the locally generated noise high-bandparameter; if the SID includes the high-band parameter, decodes the SIDto obtain a noise high-band parameter, locally generates a noiselow-band parameter, and obtains a second CN frame according to the noisehigh-band parameter obtained by decoding and the locally generated noiselow-band parameter; and if the SID includes the high-band parameter andthe low-band parameter, decodes the SID to obtain a noise high-bandparameter and a noise low-band parameter, and obtains a third CN frameaccording to the noise high-band parameter and the noise low-bandparameter obtained by decoding. In this way, different processingmanners are used for the high-band signal and the low-band signal,calculation complexity may be reduced and encoded bits may be savedunder a premise of not lowering subjective quality of a codec, and bitsthat are saved help to achieve an objective of reducing a transmissionbandwidth or improving overall encoding quality, thereby solving asuper-wideband encoding and transmission problem.

Embodiment 8

Referring to FIG. 9, this embodiment provides a system for processingaudio data, where the system includes the foregoing apparatus 500 forencoding audio data and the foregoing apparatus 600 for decoding audiodata.

The technical solutions provided by the embodiments of the presentinvention bring the following beneficial effects: a current noise frameof an audio signal is obtained, and the current noise frame isdecomposed into a noise low-band signal and a noise high-band signal;then the noise low-band signal is encoded and transmitted by using afirst discontinuous transmission mechanism, and the noise high-bandsignal is encoded and transmitted by using a second discontinuoustransmission mechanism. A decoder obtains a SID, and determines whetherthe SID includes a low-band parameter and/or a high-band parameter; ifthe SID includes the low-band parameter, decodes the SID to obtain anoise low-band parameter, locally generates a noise high-band parameter,and obtains a first CN frame according to the noise low-band parameterobtained by decoding and the locally generated noise high-bandparameter; if the SID includes the high-band parameter, decodes the SIDto obtain a noise high-band parameter, locally generates a noiselow-band parameter, and obtains a second CN frame according to the noisehigh-band parameter obtained by decoding and the locally generated noiselow-band parameter; and if the SID includes the high-band parameter andthe low-band parameter, decodes the SID to obtain a noise high-bandparameter and a noise low-band parameter, and obtains a third CN frameaccording to the noise high-band parameter and the noise low-bandparameter obtained by decoding. In this way, different processingmanners are used for the high-band signal and the low-band signal,calculation complexity may be reduced and encoded bits may be savedunder a premise of not lowering subjective quality of a codec, and bitsthat are saved help to achieve an objective of reducing a transmissionbandwidth or improving overall encoding quality, thereby solving asuper-wideband encoding and transmission problem.

The apparatus and system provided by the embodiments may specificallybelong to the same idea as the method embodiments. The specificimplementation process of the apparatus and system has been described indetail in the method embodiments and details are not repeatedlydescribed herein.

The method and apparatus for processing audio data in the foregoingembodiments may be applied to an audio encoder or an audio decoder.Audio codecs may be widely applied to various electronic devices, suchas a mobile phone, a wireless apparatus, a personal data assistant(PDA), a handheld or portable computer, a global positioning system(GPS) receiver or navigation device, a camera, an audio/video player, acamcorder, a video recorder, and a surveillance device. Generally, suchan electronic device includes an audio encoder or an audio decoder. Theaudio encoder or decoder may be directly implemented by using a digitalcircuit or chip, for example, a digital signal processor (DSP), orimplemented by using software code to drive a processor to execute aprocedure in the software code.

A person of ordinary skill in the art may understand that all or a partof the steps of the embodiments may be implemented by hardware or aprogram instructing relevant hardware. The program may be stored in acomputer readable storage medium. The storage medium may include: aread-only memory, a magnetic disk, or an optical disc.

The foregoing descriptions are merely exemplary embodiments of thepresent invention, but are not intended to limit the present invention.Any modification, equivalent replacement, and improvement made withoutdeparting from the spirit and principle of the present invention shallfall within the protection scope of the present invention.

What is claimed is:
 1. A method for an encoder to process audio data,comprising: obtaining a noise frame of an audio signal; generating anoise low-band signal and a noise high-band signal from the noise frame;encoding the noise low-band signal for a first silence insertiondescriptor (SID) using a first discontinuous transmission mechanism;transmitting the encoded noise low-band signal including the first SIDusing the first discontinuous transmission mechanism; encoding the noisehigh-band signal for a second SID using a second discontinuoustransmission mechanism, wherein a policy for sending the first SID ofthe first discontinuous transmission mechanism is different from apolicy for sending the second SID of the second discontinuoustransmission mechanism, or a policy for encoding a first SID of thefirst discontinuous transmission mechanism is different from a policyfor encoding a second SID of the second discontinuous transmissionmechanism, and wherein encoding the noise high-band signal comprises:generating a deviation according to a first ratio and a second ratio,wherein the first ratio represents a ratio of an energy of the noiselow-band signal of the noise frame to an energy of the noise high-bandsignal of the noise frame, wherein the second ratio represents a ratioof an energy of a particular noise low-band signal of the audio signalat a previous moment to an energy of a particular noise high-band signalof the audio signal at the previous moment, and wherein the previousmoment corresponds to a last time when an SID of the audio signalcomprising a noise high-band parameter was sent before the noise frame;and determining whether to encode the noise high-band signal based onthe generated deviation, wherein the noise high-band signal is encodedwhen the deviation reaches a preset threshold and wherein the noisehigh-band signal does not need to be encoded and transmitted when thedeviation does not reach the preset threshold; and transmitting theencoded noise high-band signal including the second SID when the noisehigh-band signal is encoded.
 2. The method according to claim 1, whereinthe first SID comprises a low-band parameter of the noise frame, and thesecond SID comprises a low-band parameter or a high-band parameter ofthe noise frame.
 3. The method according to claim 1, wherein encodingthe noise high-band signal further comprises: determining whether thenoise high-band signal has a preset spectral structure; and determiningwhether to encode the noise high-band signal based on the presetspectral structure, wherein the noise high-band signal is encoded whenthe noise high-band signal has the preset spectral structure, andwherein the noise high-band signal does not need to be encoded andtransmitted when the noise high-band signal does not have the presetspectral structure.
 4. The method according to claim 3, whereindetermining whether the noise high-band signal has the preset spectralstructure comprises: obtaining a spectrum of the noise high-band signal;dividing the spectrum into at least two sub-bands; determining that thenoise high-band signal has no preset spectral structure when an averageenergy of any first sub-band in the sub-bands is not smaller than anaverage energy of a second sub-hand in the sub-bands, wherein afrequency band in which the second sub-band is located is higher than afrequency band in which the first sub-band is located; and determiningthat the noise high-band signal has a preset spectral structure when theaverage energy of any first sub-band in the sub-bands is smaller thanthe average energy of the second sub-band in the sub-bands.
 5. Themethod according to claim 1, wherein the energy of the noise low-bandsignal represents an instant energy of the noise low-band signal,wherein the energy of the noise high-band signal represents an instantenergy of the noise high-band signal, wherein the energy of theparticular noise low-band signal at the previous moment represents aninstant energy of the particular noise low-band signal at the previousmoment, wherein the energy of the particular noise high-band signal atthe previous moment represents an instant energy of the particular noisehigh-band signal at the previous moment or the energy of the noiselow-hand signal represents a weighted average energy of noise low-bandsignals of the noise frame and a noise frame prior to the noise frame,wherein the energy of the noise high-band signal represents a weightedaverage energy of noise high-band signals of the noise frame and thenoise frame prior to the noise frame, wherein the energy of theparticular noise low-band al at the previous moment represents aweighted average energy of noise low-band signals of the particularnoise frame at the previous moment and a noise frame prior to theparticular noise frame, and wherein the energy of the particular noisehigh-band signal at the previous moment represents a weighted averageenergy of noise high-band signals of the particular noise frame at theprevious moment and a noise frame prior to the particular noise frame.6. The method according to claim 1, wherein generating the deviationaccording to the first ratio and the second ratio comprises: separatelycalculating a logarithmic value of the first ratio and a logarithmicvalue of the second ratio; and calculating an absolute value of adifference between the logarithmic value of the first ratio and thelogarithmic value of the second ratio to obtain the deviation.
 7. Themethod according to claim 1, wherein encoding the noise high-band signalfurther comprises: determining whether a spectral structure of the noisehigh-band signal of the noise frame, in comparison with an averagespectral structure of noise high-band signals before the noise frame,satisfies a preset condition; determining whether to encode the noisehigh-band signal based on the preset condition, wherein the noisehigh-band signal is encoded when the spectral structure of the noisehigh-band signal of the noise frame satisfies the preset condition, andwherein the noise high-band signal of the noise frame does not need tobe encoded and transmitted when the spectral structure of the noisehigh-band signal of the noise frame does not satisfy the presetcondition.
 8. The method according to claim 7, wherein the averagespectral structure of the noise high-band signals before the noise framecomprises a weighted average of spectrums of the noise high-band signalsbefore the noise frame.
 9. The method according to claim 1, wherein thepolicy for sending the second SID of the second discontinuoustransmission mechanism comprises a condition for sending the first SIDvia the first discontinuous transmission mechanism.
 10. An apparatus forencoding audio data, comprising: a processor configured to obtain anoise frame of an audio signal; generate a noise low-band signal and anoise high-band signal from the noise frame; and encode the noiselow-band signal for a first silence insertion descriptor (SID) using afirst discontinuous transmission mechanism; and a transmitter coupled tothe processor and configured to transmit the encoded noise low-bandsignal including e first SID using the first discontinuous transmissionmechanism, wherein the processor is further configured to: encode thenoise high-band signal for a second SID using a second discontinuoustransmission mechanism, wherein a policy for sending the first SID ofthe first discontinuous transmission mechanism is different from apolicy for sending the second SID of the second discontinuoustransmission mechanism, or a policy for encoding a first SID of thefirst discontinuous transmission mechanism is different from a policyfor encoding a second SID of the second discontinuous transmissionmechanism; generate a deviation according to a first ratio and a secondratio, wherein the first ratio represents a ratio of an energy of thenoise low-band signal of the noise frame to an energy of the noisehigh-band signal of the noise frame, and the second ratio represents aratio of an energy of a particular noise high-band signal of the audiosignal at a previous moment to an energy of a particular noise high-bandsignal of the audio signal at the previous moment, wherein the previousmoment corresponds to a last time when an SID of the audio signalcomprising a noise high-band parameter according to the parameterindicator was sent before the noise frame; and determine whether toencode the noise high-band signal based on the generated deviation,wherein the noise high-band signal is encoded when the deviation reachesa preset threshold, and wherein the noise high-band signal does not needto be encoded and transmitted when the deviation does not reach thepreset threshold, and wherein the transmitter is further configured totransmit the encoded noise high-band signal including the second SIDwhen the noise high-band signal is encoded.
 11. The apparatus accordingto claim 10, wherein the first SID comprises a low-band parameter of thenoise frame, and the second SID comprises a low-band parameter or ahigh-band parameter of the noise frame.
 12. The apparatus according toclaim 10, wherein the processor is further configured to: determinewhether the noise high-band signal has a preset spectral structure; anddetermine whether to encode the noise high-band signal based on thepreset spectral structure, wherein the noise high-band signal is encodedwhen the noise high-band signal has the preset spectral structure, andwherein the noise high-band signal does not need to be encoded andtransmitted when the noise high-band signal does not have the presetspectral structure and the sending condition of the policy for sendingthe second SID is not satisfied.
 13. The apparatus according to claim12, wherein the processor is further configured to: obtain a spectrum ofthe noise high-band signal; divide the spectrum into at least twosub-bands; determine that the noise high-band signal has no presetspectral structure when an average energy of any first sub-band in thesub-bands is not smaller than an average energy of a second sub-band inthe sub-hands, wherein a frequency band in which the second sub-band islocated is higher than a frequency band in which the first sub-band islocated; and determine that the noise high-band signal has a presetspectral structure when the average energy of any first sub-band in thesub-bands is smaller than the average energy of the second sub-band inthe sub-bands.
 14. The apparatus according to claim 10, wherein theenergy of the noise low-hand signal represents an instant energy of thenoise low-band signal, wherein energy of the noise high-band signalrepresents an instant energy of the noise high-band signal, wherein theenergy of the particular noise low-band signal at the previous momentrepresents an instant energy of the particular noise low-band signal atthe previous moment, wherein the energy of the particular noisehigh-band signal at the previous moment represents an instant energy ofthe particular noise high-band signal at the previous moment or theenergy of the noise low-band signal represents a weighted average energyof noise low-band signals of the noise frame and a noise frame prior tothe noise frame, wherein the energy of the noise high-band signalrepresents a weighted average energy of noise high-band signals of thenoise frame and the noise frame prior to the noise frame, wherein theenergy of the particular noise low-band signal at the previous momentrepresents a weighted average energy of noise low-band signals of theparticular noise frame at the previous moment a noise frame prior to theparticular noise frame.
 15. The apparatus according to claim 14, whereinthe processor is further configured to: separately calculate alogarithmic value of the first ratio and a logarithmic value of thesecond ratio; and calculate an absolute value of a difference betweenthe logarithmic value of the first ratio and the logarithmic value ofthe second ratio to obtain the deviation.
 16. The apparatus according toclaim 10, wherein the processor is further configured to: determinewhether a spectral structure of the noise high-band signal of the noiseframe, in comparison with an average spectral structure of noisehigh-band signals before the noise frame, satisfies a preset condition;and determine whether to encode the noise high-band signal based on thepreset condition, wherein the noise high-band signal is encoded when thespectral structure of the noise high-band signal of the noise framesatisfies the present condition, and wherein the noise high-band signalof the noise frame does not need to be encoded and transmitted when thespectral structure of the noise high-hand signal of the noise frame doesnot satisfy the preset condition.
 17. The apparatus according to claim16, wherein the average spectral structure of the noise high-bandsignals before the noise frame comprises a weighted average of spectrumsof the noise high-band signals before the noise frame.
 18. The apparatusaccording to claim 10, wherein the policy for sending the second SID ofthe second discontinuous transmission mechanism comprises the conditionfor sending the first SID via the first discontinuous transmissionmechanism.
 19. The apparatus according to claim 15, wherein theprocessor is further configured to: calculate the logarithmic value ofthe first ratio by: calculating a logarithmic value of the weightedaverage energy of noise low-band signals of the noise frame and a noiseframe prior to the noise frame and a logarithmic value of the weightedaverage energy of noise high-band signals of the noise frame and thenoise frame prior to the noise frame; and obtaining the logarithmicvalue of the first ratio by calculating a difference between thelogarithmic value of the weighted average energy of noise low-bandsignals of the noise frame and the noise frame prior to the noise frameand the logarithmic value of the weighted average energy of noisehigh-band signals of the noise frame and a noise frame prior to thenoise frame; and calculate the logarithmic value of the second ratio by:calculating a logarithmic value of the weighted average energy oflow-band signals of a noise frame at the moment and the noise frameprior to the noise frame at the moment and a logarithmic value ofweighted average energy of high-band signals of the noise frame at themoment and the noise frame prior to the noise frame at the moment; andobtaining the logarithmic value of the second ratio by calculating adifference between the logarithmic value of the weighted average energyof low-band signals of a noise frame at the moment and the noise frameprior to the noise frame at the moment and the logarithmic value ofweighted average energy of high-band signals of the noise frame at themoment and the noise frame prior to the noise frame at the moment.